GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE GENUS CROCUS. 371 
stigmatic. M. Chappellier, of Paris, has been cultivating a form 
of C. sativus in which the segments are developed as stigmata ; 
and he hopes therefrom to increase the saffron production of the 
species. A somewhat similar case of morphosis occurs in a variety 
of C. vernus sent to me by Miss C. M. Owen, of Knockmullen, 
Gorey, Ireland, in which a bright-golden stigmatie band runs up 
the centre of each outer segment, and has the appearance of a 
stigma bedded into the mass of the flower. 
It is difficult, within the limits of a single paper, to give more 
than a brief reference to many points which can only be properly 
treated of in detail. Both botanically and horticulturally the 
genus is of exceptional interest ; and I shall hope ere long to deal 
with it in more fulness as a separate monograph. 
Meantime I have added (in pages 372, 373) a Table containing 
a short analysis of the characters of all the species of the genus 
Crocus. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. 
PrarE XXXIV. 
Corm-reproduction in Crocus. About one and a half times the actual size. 
Fig. 1. Section of corm of C. vernus, at rest in July. 
2. Ditto ditto with new corm partly developed. 
Ditto ditto with new corm nearly matured. 
. Section of corm of C. minimus, with new corm nearly matured. 
. Corm of C. nudiflorus. 
. Section of corm of C. speciosus, with new corm nearly matured. 
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PraTE XXXV. 
Dissection of Spathes in Crocus. About half the natural size. 
