they are all past. 21. _Crocus vernus purpureus striatus Capillarifolio._ The stript purple Crocus with small leaues. This small stript purple Saffron flower hath such like leaues, as the last described hath, betweene which riseth the flower vpon as short a foote-stalke, consisting of six leaues like the former, of a faire purple colour on the outside of the three outer leaues, with three lines or strakes downe euery leafe, of a deeper purple colour, and on the inside of a paler purple, as the other three leaues are also, with some chiues tipt with yellow pendents, and a forked pointell in the middle: the roote of this is somewhat bigger then the former, and rounder, but couered with as thicke and as browne a skinne: it flowreth about the same time with the former. 22. _Crocus vernus luteus siue Mæsiacus._ The yellow Crocus. The yellow Crocus or Saffron flower, riseth vp with three or foure leaues out of the ground, being somewhat neare the breadth of the great purple kindes, with a white line in them, as in most of the rest: the flowers stand in the middle of these leaues, and are very large, of a gold yellow colour, with some chiues, and a forked point in the middle: the seede hereof is of a brighter colour then in any of the other: the roote is great and round, as great or greater then a Wall Nut sometimes, and couered with reddish skinnes or coates, yeelding more store of flowers then most of the former, and beginning to blowe with the first sorts, or presently after, but outlast many of them, and are of a pleasant good sent. [Sidenote: _Flore aureo._] Of this kinde we haue some, whose flowers are of a deeper gold yellow colour then others, so that they appeare reddish withall. [Sidenote: _Flore pallido._] And we haue also another sort, whose flowers are very pale, betweene a white and a yellow, not differing in any thing else. [Sidenote: _Flore viridante luteo._] And another smaller, whose flower hath a shew of greennesse in the yellow, and more greene at the bottome. 23. _Crocus vernus flavus striatus._ The yellow stript Crocus. This kinde of yellow stript Crocus or Saffron flower, riseth vp with more store of narrower and greener leaues then the former, and after the leaues are spread, there rise vp many yellow flowers from among them, which are not of so faire and bright a yellow colour, but more dead and sullen, hauing on the backside of each of the three outtermost leaues, three small stripes, of an ouer-worne or dull purple colour, with some chiues and a pointell in the middle: the roote of this kinde, is very like the roote of the former yellow, but somewhat smaller and shorter, and couered with the like reddish skinnes, but a little sadder: it flowreth not so early as the former yellow, but abideth almost as long as it. 24. _Crocus vernus luteus versicolor primus._ The best cloth of gold Crocus.