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. [Illustration: 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. ] 11. _Crocus vernus striatus Turcitus._ The Turkie stript Crocus. There is another of this kinde, whose flower is a little larger, and of a deeper purple colour, both on the inside and outside; the greene leafe also is bigger, and of a more whitish colour. 12. _Crocus vernus Capillarifolio albus._ The white Crocus with small leaues.