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up in a membranous cover. We have but one 
fpecies of this plant 
• * Crocus^ R. 374, G. 123. fativus^ C. 65. 
rus fativus autumnalis^ P. Farad. i 6 y. Saffron. It 
is fown in the fields between Saffrqn-Walden and 
Cambridge. 
Saffron is an excellent cordial, and a ftrengthner of the heart 
and vital fpirits, refills putrefaftion, and is good in all kinds of 
malignant and contagious dillempers, in fevers, Imall pox, and 
mealies. .It opens obfirudlions of the liver and fpleen, helps 
the jaundice, brings down the catamenia, expedites the birth* 
and expels the fecundines. It is good in difeafes of the lungs, as 
allhma and diihculty of breathing, and of great fervice in con- 
fumptive weaknefs ; outv/ardly applied in poultices, it eafes pains* 
and ripens impollhumations. 
Bu .BOSA ALPiNA. Tlic flowcr is hexapetalous, 
hite on the infide, and of a dull redifh colour 
on the out-fide ; large for the bignefs of the 
plant ; and, in fize and figure, refembles thofe 
of Wood Sorrel. We have but one fpecies of 
this plant, mz, 
: Bulbofa Alpina juncifolia., pericarpio unlco ere 5 lo In 
Jummo cauliculo dodrantali., R. 374. Rufh-leav’d 
Alpine Bulbocodium, with one flower ftanding eredt 
on the top of a ftalk nine inches long, 
r Iris, Flower-deluce. It hath an oblong -flefliy 
creeping root : The flower confifts of fix pe- 
tals, three eredt and bifid, and three arch’d 
and bending down ^ the downfals are fplit in 
two to the bottom, and between the fegments 
rifes a chive with its fummit: The fruit is tri- 
capfular, and opens at the top in three places. 
The fpecies are : 
*1. Iris paluftris lutea., R. 374, G. 46. Acorus 
adult erinus. C. 34. paluftris., Jive pjeudo-iris ^ Iris 
lutea palujiris., P. 1219. Yellow Water Flower- 
deluce. Comrhon in wet meadows, by ditches. The 
flowers are yellow, and the leaves long and pointed. 
- 2. Iris palujtris pallida^ R. 375, Pale, or Whi- 
