CROCUS, or SAFFRON, in botany, a genus of the triandria monogynia class. The corolla is divided into six equal parts; and it has three erect stigmata. There is but one species, a native of Britain. The anthers, or cluves, picked off and pressed together into cakes, goes by the name of saffron, which is an elegant and
useful aromatic, and is deservedly accounted one of the highest cordials.