The leaues and flowers of this other party coloured Crocus, are for bignesse in a manner equall with the last, but hath not so many flowers rising together from the roote: the flower is finely marked with blew strakes on the white flower, but nothing so much as in the former: the roote also is like the last.
9. Crocus Episcopalis. The Bishops Crocus.
This party coloured or Bishops Saffron flower, is very like both in leaues and rootes vnto the Neapolitane blew Crocus, but somewhat greater: the flowers doe abide not so long time blowne, and hath all the leaues either wholly white, with blew stripes on both sides of them, or wholly of a fine delayed blew Violet colour, and the three innermost more blew and finely striped, both on the inside and outside of them, and sometimes it hath been seen to haue three leaues white, and three leaues of a pale blew.
10. Crocus vernus striatus vulgaris. The ordinary stript Crocus.
There is another sort of stript Saffron flower, which is most common and plentifull in most Gardens, which I must needes bring vnder the ranke of these white kinds, although it differre very notably, both in roote, leafe, and flower, from all of them: the leaues of this rise vp sooner then the yellow or white Crocus, lying spread vpon the ground for the most part, but narrower then any of the former: among these leaues spring vp diuers flowers, almost as large as the former great white Crocus, of a very bleake or pale purple colour, tending to white on the inside, and in many almost white, with some small whitish chiues tipt with yellow in the middle: the three outer leaues are of a yellowish white colour on the backe side of them, stript euery one of them with three broad stripes, of a darke murrey or purple colour, and a little sprinkled with some small purple lines, on both sides of those stripes; but on the inside, of the same pale purple or white colour with the rest: the seede hereof is somewhat darker coloured then of the white, and is more liberall in bearing: the roote is differing from all the former, being rounder and bigger then any of them, except the kindes of Misia, yet somewhat flat withall, not hauing any shootes from the sides, but setting off into rootes plentifully, hauing a round circle compassing the bottome of the roote, which easily falleth away, when it is taken vp out of the ground, and couered with a browne coate, somewhat neare the colour of the yellow Crocus, but not altogether so bright: it flowreth vsually the first of all these sorts, or with the first of the early yellowes.
| 1 | Crocus vernus albus minor. The small white Saffron flower of the spring. |
| 2 | Crocus vernus Mæsiacus albus. The great white Crocus of Misia. |
| 3 | Crocus vernus albus striatus. The white stript Crocus. |
| 4 | Crocus vernus albus polyanthos versicolor. The party coloured white Crocus. |
| 5 | Crocus albus fundo purpureo. The white Crocus with a purple bottome. |
| 6 | Crocus vernus Neapolitanus. The great blew Crocus of Naples. |
| 7 | Crocus vernus purpureus maximus. The great purple Crocus. |
| 8 | Crocus vernus purpureus striatus. The purple stript Crocus. |
| 9 | Crocus vernus purpureus Capillarifolio. The purple Crocus with small leaues. |
| 10 | Crocus vernus flavus striatus. The yellow stript Crocus. |
| 11 | Crocus vernus luteus versicolor. The cloth of gold Crocus. |