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The (jar den of pleafant timers. 
leaues, when they are fully growne vp, (landing on the toppc of a round, weakc, green, 
and fliort foote-llalke, fomewhat like the leaues of white Lillies, but not fo large, and 
in the middeft of thefe'leaues, after they haue been vp fometimc, appeare two or three 
loofe skinny heads, ftanding in the middle of the leaues vpon fliort, thicke, grecnc 
ftalkes. and being ripe, contcine in them round fmallbrownifhfeede, that lye as it 
were loofetherein, and when the head is dry, may bee heard to rattle being fhaken : 
the roote is white within, but couered with a thicke blackifh skinne or coat e, hauing 
one fide thereof at the bottome longer then the other, with an hollowneffe alfoon 
the one fide of that long eminence, where the flowers rife from the bottome, and 
fhootingdownc from thence a number of white fibres, whereby it is fattened in the 
ground ; the greene leaues afterwards rifing from the top or head of theroote. 
a. Colchicum Anglic um furfureum. T he purple Englifh Medowe Saffron. 
There is no difference at all in this Medowe Saffron from the former,but only in the 
colour of the flowers, which as they were wholly white in theformer, Coin this they 
arc of a delayed purple colour, with a fmall fhew of veines therein. 
3. Colchicum Pannonicum album. The white Hungary Medowe Saffron. 
The greateft difference in this Colchicum from the former Englifh white one, is, that 
it is larger both in roote, leafe, and flower, and befides, hath more flore of flowers to- 
gether, and continuing longer in beauty, without fading fofoone as the former, and 
are alfo fomewhat ofa fairer white colour. 
4. Colchicum Pannonicum furfureum. The purple Hungary Medowe Saffron. 
This purple Medowe Saffron is fomewhat like vnto the white ofthis kinde, but that 
it bcareth not fo plentifully as the white, nor doth the roote grow fo great ; but the 
flowers are in a manner as large as thcy,andofthelikepaledelayed purple colour, or 
fomewhat deeper , as is in the purple Englifh, withfomc veines ormarkesvponthc 
flowers, making fome fhew of a checker on the out fide, but not fo confpicuous, as in 
the true chcckerd kindes. Wee haue a kinde hereof is party coloured with white 
ftreakes and edges, which abide conflant , and hath been raifed from the feede of the 
former. 
5 . Colchicum 'Byzantinum. Medowe Saffron of Conftantinople. 
This Medowe Saffron of Conftantinople hath his leaues fo broad and large, that 
hardly could any that neuer faw it before, iudge it to be a Colchicum ; for they are much 
larger then any Lilly leaues, and of a darkc greene colour : the flowers are cerrefpon- 
dent to the leaues, larger and more in number then in any of the former purple kindes, 
of the fame colour with the laft purple kinde, but of a little deeper purple on the in- 
fide, with diuers markes running through the flowers , like vnto it , or vnto checkers, 
but yet fomewhat more apparantly : theroote is in the middle greater and rounder 
then the others, with a longer eminence , whereby it may eafily bee knowne from all 
other forts. 
6. Colchicum Lajitauicum pritiBaricum. 
The chcckerd Medowe Saffron of Portugall. 
The flowers of this Medowe Saffron arc larger and longer then the flowers of either 
the Englifh or Hungarian, and almoft as large as the laft before mentioned, and of the 
fame colour, but a little deeper , thefpotsand markes whereof are fomewhat more 
eafie tobefeeneeuenafarreoff, like vnto the flower of aFricillaria, from whence it 
tooke his fignificatiue name: the leaues of this Medowe Saffron doe rife vp fooner 
then in any other of the Autumne kindes ; for they are alwayes vp before Winter, and 
are foureor fiue in number, fhort rather then long, broad belowe , and pointed at the 
end, canaled or hollow, and ftanding roundaboue the ground , one encompaffingan- 
other at the bottome, like thegreat Spanilh Starre Iacinth, callpd the Iacinth of Peru, 
