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in a sheath of brown scales, enclosing the base of the flower, 

 whose long tube rises to 3 or 4 inches above ground, with 

 six oblong segments of a reddish-purple or rarely white, 



Fig. 4. — Colohioum Auttimnale (Meadow Saffron). 



and nearly 1^ inches long. Soon afterwards the leaves 

 appear, and attain in spring a length of 8 or 10 inches, by 

 about 1 or 1^ inches in breadth. The capsule is then 



