FOOTNOTES:
[268:1] Fuller says of the crocodile—"He hath his name of χροχό-δειλος, or the Saffron-fearer, knowing himself to be all poison, and it all antidote."—Worthies of England, i, 336, ed. 1811.
[270:1] "Cilician," or "Corycean," were the established classical epithets to use when speaking of the Saffron. Cowley quotes—
"Corycii pressura Croci"—Lucan;
"Ultima Corycio quæ cadit aura Croco"—Martial;
and adds the note—"Omnes Poetæ hoc quasi solenni quodam Epitheto utuntur. Corycus nomen urbis et montis in Cilicia, ubi laudatissimus Crocus nascebatur."—Plantarum, lib. i, 49.
[270:2] "Saffron is . . . a native of Cashmere, . . . and the . . . Saffron Crocus and the Hemp plant have followed their (the Aryans) migrations together throughout the temperate zone of the globe."—Birdwood, Handbook to the Indian Court, p. 23.
[271:1] "Our English hony and Safron is better than any that commeth from any strange or foregn land."—Bullein, Government of Health, 1588.
[271:2] The arms of the borough of Saffron Walden are "three Saffron flowers walled in."