SANGUINEOUS COLCHI C "uu^""' 
COLCHICUM AUTUMMALE MUETIPlex 
W E areacciiftom’dtotheCulchlcummgrcatvariclv. r . a 
the fillip; and teffclatcd as the Fritillary but tl ’’ double, drip’d as 
The vaftnefs of the Flower, and the contrail of colour T 
feft ermine, tho’ it be laid on with lefs regularity, will r’ecominrndlt”''”'^ 
In autumn, there rife, uncover’d from the ground three FI 
accompany ’d by no Leaves, fupported by no Stallr h.’.t i j duller, 
below is' an oblong Bulb, coated with a thick c’hefn defencelefs. The Root 
from the ground, each Bud opens into a Flower emnli a 'u' 
of eighteen Petals, long, wav’d and pointed f-nM 
are a bloody crimfon. “ colour is white, and the fpots 
Nothing more is feen, unlefs by opening the erround Then • . r 
rife from the centre of certain young Leaves whirrs l, . 
bard, yellowilh, rib’d, and dy’d 3^7 771" S-'’' 
the Bulb, next within the b olrCo t T 
n.™s^r *■“» - '= 
mams. It IS continued down to the Root, in three dillindt bodies. ' 
the^Rlnt " Seed-veffel, almoft clofe upon the Head of 
rifes afJwlT "' I. 7“ ^'^fions. This grows and 
Surface a' • ' fucceeding fpring, pierces the 
down 11^73^' 77'" apparent previous Flower; that having 
Autumn. A fmgular, and great Provifion of Nature for the Seeds. 
SvIVm 7 Hexandria, the fixth Clafs in the Sexual 
the r7 r « ? 'he parts of 
one of th"' 7" the Filaments in that are only three, it becomes 
'veo t '■‘attdna, and is feparated from this Colchicum, and coupled with the Ixii, 
Ihair7 77^^* Sfftem, tho’ ufeful, is not natural. Whenever a true natural metliod 
the Ro^ ^ ^ '“t d, the Colchicum and Crocus will be plac’d together. They agree in ' 
of C Flotfers, for tho’ the Leaves of Colchicum are broad, and t'lofc 
thefATm* both are grafly. They are alike in the eflentials, and dilFcr only in 
‘"tie lelier charadters. 
This P) • » 
^lie ’IH rais’d from feed /av’d from the common Colchicum, gather’d from 
P ant in a meadow' near Calne in Wiltshire. 
Colchicum florc plcno aui^oruoi. 
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