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SAFRON, Crocus; in Hebrew call’d Carcos or Corcos1; a well known Flower. Its Flower is of a blue Colour, in the midst of which are small Threds of a yellow Colour, of a very agreeable Smell. Solomon in his Song of Songs joins it with other Aromaticks: Nardus, & Crocus, & Fistula, &c. Jeremiah speaks of Cloths of a Safron Colour. Qui nutriebantur in Croceis.2 But the Hebrew of Jeremiah rather signifies Purple or Crimson.
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