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Show Lie te: Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 160 they are marked with ¢ ttaine are ofalighter purple without, a nd of'adeeperontheinfide,and are thrice as large as thofe plant ofthis andfeeds roots The leaues. thefe veines running alongft f the yn kinde. t : a itd ik, le and B ‘OW : like to the firft deferibed, but the floure is2 fhorter, er CATs andleaues ared: -aues areof — eC _ en th:the> threc ; ; but little i rifes so i aboue theearth: fothatit ; = fl ak Ta de, in ith purple; aues are either wholly) white, or purplith on the middle p oe the three out leaues ath thefloure of leaues the all : ts loured{po withfuchco ; {potted ftreake withfaire purple veins,or or ftreaked ese fer we : . are blunter and rounder than in the common kinde. | in the colour of the floures,difas alfo rowing, as ime ae of growing, I his in leaues, roots, mannerf and time Ir fers not fromthefirft defcribed, but the floures, as you mayperceiuc by thefigure here exprefled; arevery double, and confift of many leaues. List. OFthe Hiftory of Plants. 9 Colchicum Syriacum Alexandrinum, Affyrian Mede Saffron, : iy 161 referred eafily to fomeof thefe, for that their dif. ference chiefely confifts cither inthe doubleneffe or colourof the floures, whercoffome are ftriped, fomefraided, others variegated, I will non ingtt vponthem, but referre furchas defire their further acquaintanceto look into the gardens ofour Efex rifts,as M. Parkinfons, M. Tuggies, cc.orelfe inta the booke offloures fet forth not long fince-by M. Parkinfom, where theyfhall finde themlargely treated of, ‘Yet I caunot pafleouer in filence that curious Colchicum whichis called by fome,Colchicum varieratum Chienfe, The floure thereof is very beautiful, confifting offix pretty broad and fharp Theleffer mountaine Saffron with avarious coloured floure. pointedleaues,all curioufly checkered ouer with deepeblew or purple, the reftof the floure being ofa lightwhitifh colour: the leaues,that rife vp in the Spring, are not very long,but fomewhat broad andfharpe pointed ; the rootis like others of this kinde. I haue giuen youan exaG and large figure of this,as I tookeit from the growing floure Prac three yeares agone,it being at that time among ft her Maiefties foures kept at Edgcombe in Surry, in the garden of my much honoured friend Sir John Tunftall, Gentleman Vfher vnto her Maieftie, 15 I giue youhere in this placethe true Hermoda ill ofthe thops, which probably by all is adiudged to this Tribe,though none can certain- ly fay what flouresor leaues it beares: the Roots are onely brought tovs, and from what place I cannottell; yet I coniefture from fome part of Syria or the adiacent countries. Now how hard it is to iudge ofPlants by onepart ot particle,I fhall fhew you more at largewhen I cometottear ofP(tolochia, whereforeI willfay nothing thereofinthis place. Thefe roots, which maligne qualitie ofColchicum,either oftheir owne nature, or by drineffe,arecommonlywanting the about the bigneffe ofa Chefnut, fmooth, flattith, and fharpe at the one end,but fomewhatf ull at the other, and on the onefide there is a little channell or hollownefle as is in the roots of Mede-Saffton wherethe ftalke ofthe floure comes vp. Their colouris either white, browne,or blackith on the outfide, and very white within,but thofe are the beft that arewhite both without and with in, mayeafily be madeinto fine white meale or pouder. + 8 Colchicum parvum montanum luteum, Yellow mountaine Saffron. 12 This Colchicumdifferslittle fromthe firft ordinaric one, butthat the floures are foment leffe, and the three out-leaues are fomwhat bigger thanthe three inner Ieaues ; the colour aki tle deeper alfo thanthat of the common one ; but that wherein the principall irae c ca is, Thatthis floures twice ina yeare, to wit, in the Spring and Autumne: and hence Clufius be called it Colchicum biflorum, Twice-flouring Mede Saffron. : -dinary, but 13 Thisalfointhe fhape of the root and Icaues isnot muchdifferent from the orc pares the leaues ofthe foureare longer and narrower, the colouralfo whenthey begin to open ae sd themfciues,iswhite, but fhortly after they are changed into a light purple: each ete a floure hatha white thread tipt with yellow growing outofit, and in the middle ftands ‘ Jee three forked one longer thanthe reft.The floure growesvp betweenthreeor foure sansBe ate than thofe of the ordinarie one, and broader than thofe of the fmall Spanifh kinde. Cais whomwe are beholdenfor this,as alfo for moft of the reft, calls it Colchicum vernum, % pio Mede-Saffron, becaufe it then Houres together with the Spring Saffrons and Dogs 2008 s 14 Thereare other Mede-Satfrons befides thefe I haue mentioned, but becaufe they u and o-* 6 Colchicum Ilyricum. si. Greeke medowSaffron, a Pe.| er (icon mi niin ieum? : lorejlore. e ; 4 o |
