The (garden of pleafant t lowers. 
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This kindediffereth very little from the former, either in roote , leafe, or flower 
for the bignelTe or colour, but that it feemeth to be a little bleaker or paler blew . be- ZtZIZT 
caufc it flowreth a little earlier. ■ cm 1 
1 5 . Croats verms purpureus firhtus. The ftript purple Crocus. 
The leaues ofthis ftri pt purple Saffron flower, are as large and broad as the Lift, or 
rather a little longer : the flowers alfo are as plentiful!, and as large, of a fine delayed 
purple colour on the outfide, with three broad ftrakes or lines downe the backe of the 
three outer leaues, and ofa little deeper purple on the infide, as the other three leaues 
are alfo ofa deeper purple colour, and are ftriped with the fame deepe purple about 
theground, orbottomeof the leaues : this fpmetimesyeeldeth three fquare heads 
containing in them bro wnifh feede : the roote is like vnto the laft, and flowreth much 
about the time of the former, 
i p. Croats vernus purpureus verftcolor. The filuer ftript purple Crocus. 
This ftript Saflron flower, is in leaues and flowers fomewhat like vnto the laft ftript 
purple, buta little fmaller : the flowers are ofa little deeper purple through the whole 
leaues, ftriped with white lines, both on the leaues, and towards the edges, which ma- 
Iceth a peculiar difference from all the reft : the roote of this is not fo flat , though like 
it,andcoueredwitha darkeafh coloured skinne : it flowreth about the fame time. 
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18. Crocus purpureusJLtmmestsmaior.Thegteatci purple fame coloured Crocus. 
The greene leaues of this Crocus or Saffron flower, are of a reafonable breadth and 
length, and ofa pleafant frefh greenneffc , wichafaire.broad white line downe the 
middle of them , but rifing not out of the ground fo early as the next deferibed Cro- 
cus : the flowers are likewife of a meane bignefle, o^a pale purple on the outfide, 
fomewhat whicifti, efpecially the three outer leaues ; but on the infide of a deeper pur- 
ple,and ftriped with great ftripcs like flames, hauing fome chiues in the middle, and a 
longer onealfo feathered a little at the toppe : the roote is white on the outfide, fome- 
what flat and round, but notfo flat as the Neapolitane Crocus before deferibed. 
1 9 . Crocus purpureus fltmmeas minor. 1 he leffer purple flame coloured Crocus. 
This Crocus hathalmoftasbroadandlonggreeneleauesas the former, and of the 
fame verdure, which rife vp earlier then it, and is in flower likewife fomewhat before 
it, being fmaller for fize by a little, but ofas deepe a purple on the outfide, as on the 
infide, flamed with faire broad ftripes from the middle of the leaues, or fomewhat 
lower vnto the edges : each ofthefegiuefeed that is ofapale reddifb colour: the root 
is very like vnto the former, but a little leffer. 
a o. Crocus vernus purpureus CapiBarifilio.The purple Crocus with fmall leaues. 
This finallkinde of Saffron flower rifeth out of the ground, with two or three long 
and fmall green leaues, very like vnto the leaues of the fine Fether- Grafle hereafter de- 
feribed, Handing vpright at the firft, but afterwards lying vponthe ground; among 
which come the flowers, fometimes three, but moft vfually two vpon oneftalke, it 
the roote be not young, which then will beare but one on a ftalke, which is very fliort, 
fo that the flowers fcarcearifeaboue the ground, yet laying themfelues open in the 
day time, if it be faire, and the Sunnc doe fhine, othenvife they keepe clofe , and doe 
not open at all : and after one flower is paft , which doth not laft abcue three or foure 
dayes at the moft, the others follow, which are of a bleake blewilh purple in the mid- 
dle of the flower, and of a deeper purple towards the ends or points of the leaues, but 
of a more fullen or darke purple on the outfide of them, and yellowifh at thebottome, 
with fomc yellow chiues in the middle 1 , the feede is (mail and darker coloured then 
any of the former Crocus , contained alfo in fmaller heads , ftanding one by another 
vpon 
