1 _Colchicum montanum Hispanicum._ The little Spanish Medowe Saffron. 2 _Colchicum montanum minus versicolore flore._ The small party coloured Medowe Saffron. 3 _Colchicum versicolor._ The party coloured Medowe Saffron. 4 _Colchicum variegatum alterum._ Another party coloured Medowe Saffron. 5 _Colchicum atropurpureum._ The darke purple Medowe Saffron. 6 _Colchicum atropurpureum variegatum._ The variable darke purple Medowe Saffron. 7 _Colchicum vernum._ Medowe Saffron of the spring. 8 _Colchicum flore pleno._ Double Medowe Saffron. ] The Place. All these Medowe Saffrons, or the most part of them, haue their places expressed in their titles; for some grow in the fields and medowes of the champion grounds, others on the mountaines and hilly grounds. The English kindes grow in the West parts, as about Bathe, Bristow, Warmister, and other places also. The double kindes are thought to come out of Germany. The Time. Their times likewise are declared in their seuerall descriptions: those that are earliest in Autumne, flower in August and September, the later in October, and the latest in the end of October, and in November. The other are said to bee of the Spring, in regard they come after the deepe of Winter (which is most vsually in December and Ianuary) is past. The Names. The generall name to all these plants is _Colchicum_, whereunto some haue added _Ephemerum_, because it killeth within one dayes space; and some _Strangulatorium_. Some haue called them also _Bulbus Agrestis_, and _Filius ante Patrem_, The Sonne before the Father, because (as they thinke) it giueth seede before the flower: but that is without due consideration; for the root of this (as of most other bulbous plants) after the stalke of leaues and seede are dry, and past, may be transplanted, and then it beginneth to spring and giue flowers before leaues, (and therein onely it is differing from other plants) but the leaues and seede follow successiuely after the flowers, before it may be remoued againe; so that here is not seede before flowers, but contrarily flowers vpon the first planting or springing, and seede after, as in all other plants, though in a diuers manner. The _Colchicum Hermodactilum_ may seeme very likely to bee the _Colchicum Orientale_ of Matthiolus, or the _Colchicum Alexandrinum_ of Lobelius: And some thinke it to be the true _Hermodactilus_, and so call it, but it is not so. We doe generally call them all in English Medowe Saffrons, or _Colchicum_, according to the Latine, giuing to euery one his other adiunct to know it by. The Vertues.