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i. Crccru 'Byzantinas argenteas. The filuer coloured Autumne Crocus. 
This Saffron flower fpringeth vp in Odtober , and feldome before , with three otr 
foure fhort greenc leaues at the firft, but growing longer afterwards , and in the rftidft 
of them, prefently after they haue appeared , one flower forthe mod hart, and feP- 
dome two, confiding of fix leaues, the three outermoft whereof are fomewhat la'rget 
then the other three within, and arc of a pale bleake blew colour, almoft whi'c,whicfi 
many call a filuer colour, thethree innermoft being of a purer white , with fome yel- 
low chiues in the middle, and a longer pointell ragged or fethered at thetoppe : thfe 
very feldomebeareth feede , but when theyearefallethout to bee very milde ; it is 
fmall,round,andofa darke colour: the rooteis pretty bigge, and rounder then any 
other Crocus, withoutany flat bottoine, and couered with a darke ruffet skinne. 
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3 . Crtcas Pyrennw parfurem. The purple mountaine Crocus. 
This purple Saffron flower of the Autumne , rifeth vp but with one flower vfually, 
yet fometimes with two one after another,without any leaues at all, in September, or 
fometimes in Auguft , ftandingvpon a longer foote-ftalke thenanykindeof Saffron 
flower, either of the Spring or Autumne, and is as large as the flower of the greateft 
purple Saffron flower of the Spring, ofa very deepe Violet purple colour, which de- 
cayethafterithathftoodblowne threeor foure dayes, and becommeth more pale, 
hauing in the middle fome yellow chiues, and a long fether topt pointell , branched, 
and riling fometimes aboue the edges of the flowers : about a moncth after the flowers 
are paft, and fometimes not vntill the firft of the S pring, there rifeth vp th ree or foure 
Iongand broad greene leaues, withawhite linein eucryoneofthem, likevntorhe 
firft purple Vernali kindes , which abide vntill the end of May or Iunc : the roore is 
fmall and white on the outfide, folike vntotheroote of the Idler Vernali purple or 
white Crocus, that it cannot be diftinguifiied, vntill about the end of Auguft, when it 
doth begin to (hoot, and then by the early (hooting vp a long white fprout for flower, 
itmaybeknowne. I neucr could obferue it to giuc any feede, the Winter (aslthinkc) 
comming on it foquickly after the flowring, being the caufe to hinder ir. 
4. Cracas mint anas Jatamaalis. The Autumne mountaine Crocus. 
The mountaine Saffron flower fpringeth vp later then any of the former, and doth 
not appeare vntill the middle or end of Oftober, when all the flowers of she former 
are paft, appearing firft with threeor foure fhort greene leaues, like vntothe Byzantine 
Crocus, and afterwards the flowers betweene them, which are of a pale or bleake blew 
tending to a purple, the foote-ftalkcs of them being fo fhort , that they fcarce appeare 
aboue ground at the firft , but after two or three dayes they grow a little higher : the 
rooteis very great and flat bottomed, couercd with a gray ifli duskie coate or skinne, 
and encreafeth very little or feldome. 
The Place. 
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The feucrall places of thefe Saffron flowers, are in part fet downe in their 
titles ; the others haue beene found out , fome in one Countrey , and fome 
in another, as the fmall purple and white, and ftript white in Spaine : the 
yellow in Mefia about Belgrade, the great purple in Italy ; and now by fuch 
friends helpes as haue fent them, they profper as well in our Gardens, as in 
their naturali places. Yet I muff giue you this to vnderftand, that fome of 
thefe formerly expreffed,haue been railed vp vnto ys by tbe fowing of their 
feede. 
The Time. 
Their feuerall times are likewife exprefled in their deferiptions. for fome 
Acw forth their pleafant flowers in the Spring, wherein for the three fiift 
moneths, 
