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Show eS Satb The; Bi Ri lg7 yl ae 1H ER he..BLR ITS 0 ee DIVISION POR B LGN. IL ctepbaes Horenceraleoelabo/as i. Hieniniaeree= and {mall nee root is round rd and imal. rous, andof a pale green. ie Jeaves are nume if t, broa broadd , and’ ten uprigh he flalk iis round, Bei Grek The flowers ftand. droopingin a thick, thort {pikeat the an top ;.and.they are globular,or nearly 4 fo, and blue. Tt is a native of the Eaft, and flowers in Au. ei : guit. Blue Mafcari. hej! Twn S.PIBLC I ES, <8 V. rounc The root is {mall and andround, bul r bate, bafe. 8s tubular : a long, on fit of It :confifts ri he OF the fr ly from “ime ediately rifes immediate rr ETE ‘flower iis large, and rifes petals. There ng fo many large refembli sents, ; fix idedinto di a top the at body, 1a broad 1} i 2a: d into three parts, and the leaves appear ata different time from no Cub. “The feed*veffel is divide . the flowers a trigynia 5 the threads being fix, and the ftyles three, and Linnaus places this among the’ Fi of equal length with them. fix; but The rootis large and round. The leaves are numerous, long, and when fully at a expanded very broad: they naturally appear “ent time from the fower ; and if any chance yurple. The fegments are naturally mes theyf er in the double ny and fo: Eem imes, in{ftead purple, the Soweris ftreaked with white throughout. We haveit in me ties. It flowers in Sey C. Bauhine callsit to rife Withit, they“are narrower. The flower rifes out of the ground without any to that purftalk, its own tubular bale ferv pale, but elegant pofe: it is very large, and of a Ge iit COMMUNE. The root is accounted poifonous. ig S Sopa wk. Ft! N. C. R01 C-U~s: at the bafe, and divided into fix ed of a fingle petal, tubular, and very long ’ flower i tg at the edee, which’ feem fo manydiftin& petals. The fcabbard ferving as a cup, 18 The {eed-vefiel is roundifh, ‘but marked with three ridg ce'to be diftinguifhed as a genus fromthe preceding, Linnzus places in s plant, whict nt clafs, the jria, becaufe the threads in the flower are only three. Tt flowers in Augut. C. Bauhine calls it Crocus fati The part ufed in medicine rifes from the top of the ftyle, and is in its termination deftined to refrom the buttons’ of the threads, ceive the farina the bottom. the feeds, This confifts of re very narrow and grafly, of a} for impregne The | at <oloured, waved, three 6 5 darlegteen, and are miatked witha white rib along the middle; ‘ The flow elarge, and of a‘fine bluepurple, and dried with care. with orange+coloured tops to the {tyles. The whole. compafs of medicine does not 2! growkingdom It is found in fome parts of the excel is It fudorifi or cordial nobler a ford been has probably but ing in‘fields under hedges, owing to roots featteréd from places where it was cultivated forfale, BULBOCODIU™M, lent alfo in obftructions of the vifcera, in powcer or tincture. and ofsa pale red on the outfide, but white Bulbocodium flore rubente. Pep. @| within. WOM: FC Be Meadow-Saftron. VI. HE flower is compofed of fix petals, and has no cup. The feed-veffel is marked withtt aree ridges; and there are fome rudiments of leaves uponthe ftalk, Linnzus places this among the hexandria, Alpine “Bulbocodium: dicia Colchicum vulgare. Pbz.74 9 C. Bauhinecalls it Mu/cart. vulgare, A DOW-SAFFRON. emo’ NU, HE RB Ay. ‘Fhe leaves«are-numerous;.dong, narrow,»and of a pale green. The ftalk is four inches high, veryflender, and has a few imperfect leaves, One flowerftands at the top ; and-thisis {mall, Wehave it on our northern mountains. f . flowers in Auguft. I¢ Raycalls it Balbocodiun incur pumilinm junci~ folinm flore unico extus rubente. Its virtues are unknown, The END of the TWENTY-NINTH CLASS; |