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COLCHICUM arenarium; (3. umbrosum. 



Crim Meadow-saffnm. 



HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA (v. modb MONOGYNIA). 



Nat. ord, JuNCi. Jussieu gen. 43. Div. IV. 



Melanthaceje. Brown prod. 1. 274. 



COLCHICUM. Cor. semisubterranea, infundibulifonnis, disjunctis 

 laciniarum unguibus hexapetala, vel istis in tubo conjunctis G-fida. Stam. 

 summo ungui v. tubo inserta: anth. introrsa, erectae t. subincumbentes 

 ssepiiis mobiles. Styli 3 filifonnes, vel nanc unus ; sHg. 3 lineana canahcu- 

 lato-continna obtusa replicata. Caps, membranacea, oblonga, acuminata, 

 triloba lobis unilocularibus, none inflatis, ad axim connexis, per suturam 

 interiorem dehiscentibus : sent, numerosa, subglobosa, loculamentorum mar- 



ginibus intimis annexa. , . ■.!• ji 



Bulbo-tuber Tulipje simile, ovato-acuminatum, bast obttquatuniy dmar- 

 gine altera attenuato-producto radicans, tunicd crastaceo-nrnnhranaceAves- 

 titum, sohohm gemellam utringue de bastenixum post peractam Jructtfica- 

 tionem emoriens. Fol. camosula, ^plura, altema, ivfernt cauhna, hnearta 

 anausta ad elliptica lata, plus minus tardtora fiore, fructus cantempm^nea, 

 basi vaginantia. Caulis ilorifer hvmo latens, fructifer prominens. Hores 

 -t _7. *„«**„-„«• f«-t»i«/fb>« ■maiwju'u.li. recti, rubeutes V. candicantes. 



C.aremrium, 4-folium, uni-bU(pluri ?)florum ; folus ligulato-lanceolatis, sta- 



minibus ter ferfe corollae limbo brevioribus, subaequantibus stigmata. 

 («) 8«piils uniflorum. Acre violaceo-purpurascente, fimbi lacmiis lanceolatia, 



foliis canescentibus. ■nr.-iu 



Colchicum arenarium. Wald. et Kitaib. pi. rar. hung. 2. 195. t.V39. iriua. 



in mag. d. geseU. nat.fr. zu berl. 1808. 26. efusd.enum.l. 401. 



{$) bi-(pluri?-)florum, flore dilute purpurascente, hmbi lacmus Imean-oblongis 



Co^^^S^^^nPS^^ ,uo de MoseU missum fuU e. 



ColSt f«/S:£Va.. floribus vulg. pluribus simul -mpenUb- duplo 

 minoribus staminibus pistillo jequd.bus. Marsch. Ineb. f. taur. cauc. 



suppl. 281. 



Drawn at Mr. Griffins, where the plant had been re- 

 ceived from Moscow, under the title of Colchicum umbro- 

 sum, and marked as native of the Crimea. It is quite new 

 in our gardens. Like most of this genus, it produces the 

 flower in the autumn and the leaves the ensuing spnng. 

 We believe it to be the same as the plant cited from 

 Marschal-s Flora, and possibly a variety of the Hungarian 



plant; although. of this fact we h^^e ';°"^'''«^^\^°"^'' 

 the two differing not only in colour of the flower, but also 



