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10. Calchicum variegatum alter urn. 
T here is another, whofeparty coloured flowers rife a little higher, diucrfly ftriped 
and marked, with a deeper purple fcbloiir, and a pale or whitilh blulh throughoutall 
the leaues of the flower. 
former, and ota deeper reddifh purple-colour theneitherthe Englilh or Hungarian 
kindest thcgreeneleauesalfoarclftiallerthenany other, lying on the ground , of a 
deepe or fad greene colour, tiling vp within a while after the flowers are paft,and doe 
abide greeneall the Winter long : the roote is fmalland long, according to the reft of 
the plant, and likein forme to the others. 
This 1 ittle kinde differeth not from the Spanifli kinde laft fet forth, but in the varie- 
tie of the flower, which isas (mail as the former ; the three inner leaues beingalmoft 
all white, and the three outer leaues fome of them pale or blulh , andfome party co- 
loured, with a little greene bn the backe of fome of them. 
bis flowers appeare beyond the nature ofall the former kindes, yet the flower doth, 
after they are vp,fliew it felfein the middle of the greene leaues, confifting of fix white 
leaues, with diuers chiues in the middle , and paffeth away without giuing any feede 
that euer I could obferue: the greene leaues abide all the Winter and Spring follow- 
ing, decaying about May,and appeare not Vntill September, when (as I (aid; the flow- 
ers (hew themfelues prefently after the leaues are fprung vp. 
pearing is as pale a purple, as the flower of the former Hungarian kinde : but after it 
hath flood in flowertwo or threedayes, it beginnerh to change, and will aftera while 
become to bee of a very deepe reddifh purple colour, as alfotbc little foote-ftalke 
whereon it doth ftand : the flower is ofthe bignefle of the Hungarian pdrple, and fo is 
the greene lcafe : the feede and roote is like the Englilh purple kinde. 
We haue of late gained another fort of this kinde, differing chiefly in the flower,- 
which is diucrfly ftriped thorough euery leafe of the flower , with a paler purple co- 
lour , whereby the flower is of great beauty : this might feeme to bee a degeneration 
from the former, yet it hath abiden conflant with me diuers yeares, and giueth feede 
as plentifully as the former. 
The double Medowe Saffron isin roote and leafe very like vnto the Englilh kinde : 
the flowers are of a fine pate or delayed purple colour, confifting of many leaues fet 
thickc together, which are fomewhat fmaller, as in the Englilh flower, being narrow 
andlong, and as it were roUnd at the points, which make a very double flower, hauing 
is. Calchicummontmum minus verpealare flare. 
The fmall party coloured Medowe Saffron. 
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1 4. Calchicum atropurpureum. The darke purple Medowe Saffron. 
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T he greateft difference in this kinde eonfifteth in the flower , which at the ffrft ap- 
I y. Calchicum atrapurpureum variegatum. 
The party coloured darke purple Medowe Saffron. 
1 6. Calchicum flare plena. Double flo wred Medowe Saffron. 
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