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V. A botanical Defcription of the Flower and Seed^ 
Veffel of the F^lant, called Crocus Autumnalis 
Sacivus, that produces the true Englifh Saffron 
of the Shops : With a Figure, !By Dr. James 
, Douglas, Honorary Fellow of the College of 
Phyficians, and Fellow of the Royal Society. 
T H E Flower of this curious Plant is of the Lil- 
ly Kind, monopetalous, infundibuliformis, with- 
’ out any Calyx or ferianthtum^ its long fiftulous Be- 
ginning being afterwards expanded into fix beautiful 
oblong Segments. Vid, Lit. A. A. Fig, 6, 
It confifls of the following Parts, the Fetalum^ 
the Stamina^ the Apices^ the Ovarium^ and the Stylus • 
with its Capillamenta Tubtformia^ of all which in Or- 
der. 
T ETA LON. 
The Petalum is diflinguifhed into a long, hollow, or 
fiftulous Part, which lies inclofed within the common 
and proper Involucra of the Plant, arifing from the 
Top of the Ovarium, or Seed-VeffeL and fix Segments. 
Vid. Lit. a, a. 
While this narrow, tubulous Part runs between the 
Leaves and Integuments that furround them, it is of a 
white Colour^ but, alfoon as it is difengaged from 
thefe, it infenfibly acquires a Purple Colour, which, a 
little before its Divifion, as it begins to be enlarged, 
and grow more open, inclines to a Red. 
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