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COLCHICUM versicolor. 

 Clitsius's MeadoW'Saffrwi. 



HEXANDRIA TRI-v. MONOQYNIA. 



Nat. ord. JuNCi. Jus$ieu gen. 43. Die. IV. Germina {dura (Bspii^s 



tria). Capsulse totidem unilocularest interdftm basi couitae. 

 Mores paniculati aut spicati. > 



Melanthacbje. Brown prod. 1. 274. 

 COLCHICUM. Supra fol. 541. 



G. versicoior (uniflorum) ; foliis quateniis elongato-ligulatis, angustis, spira- 

 libiis, cinereo-virentibus, coroUffi hexapetalodi-partitae lacmiis lineanbus ; 

 stylo unico, stigmate subsimpUci. 



Amaryllis colchicinora. Denominatio $ub qud exemplar prtesena i Mo»cki 

 mistumjnit. 



Colchicum montanum minus versicolore flore. Chts. hist. 1. 201 ; cum ic. 



In recapitulating the ispecies of this genus in a preceding 

 article (541) of this publication, we had attributed the 

 synonym from Clusius belonging to the plant before us, to 

 the Merendera Bulbocodium of the Liliac^s, where it is 

 represented from a dried sample; but we are convinced 

 that the plant of the Liliac6es is the Colchicum montanum 

 hispanicum of Clusius, and consequently, in so far as a syn- 

 onym can decide the point, the Colchicum montanum of 

 Linnseus. A very distinct species from the present. 



The drawing of versicolor was taken at Mr. Griffin's 

 garden. South Lambeth, where the bulb had been obtained 

 from Moscow, under the appellation of Amarylus colchici- 

 Jlora, and is quite new to our collections. It flowered in the 

 autumn, when the leaves began to appear above the coat- 

 ing of the bulb, in the way shown in our drawing and in 

 the figure in Clusius's work, thougli they did not attain 

 their full growth before the following spring. The full- 

 grown ones were not known to Clusius, to whom the draw- 

 ing of the plant introduced in his valuable history seems 

 to have been communicated by his correspondent Plateau of 

 Tournay, its original cultivator. 



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