1440 
CRÓCUS* vérnus; var. pictus. 
The painted Vernal Crocus. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Irinezx Jussieu, (Introduction to the natural system of 
Botany, p. 260.) 
CROCUS. — Supra, vol. 17, fol. 1416. 
Crocus vernus pictus. Sabine in hort. trans. vol. 7. tab. 11. f. 15. 
GARDEN VARIETY. 
This is one of the handsomest of the varieties of 
C. vernus. We know nothing of its origin; but it has 
for some years been cultivated in the Garden of the 
Horticultural Society, where our drawing was made last 
spring. Mr. Sabine thus describes it in his paper upon 
Crocuses above referred to: 
* Flowers early in the middle season, but not very 
freely. The leaves few, broad, and rather spreading. The 
tube and bases of the petals a shining rich dark purple ; 
the petals large, broad, and obovate, forming an obovate 
flower, though not a very perfect one; the outer petals at 
back are most beautifully marked; from the spots at the 
base, at even distances from each other, rise from five to 
seven purple lines on a whitish ground ; the lines towards 
the middle of the petals become feathered, and gradually 
widen till they are united in broad feathered patches of 
purple on the top; "the, backs of the inner petals are 
covered with large broad purple feathers on white ground, 
the inside of the outer petals is like the outside of the 
inner petals; the inside of the inner petals is beautifully 
feathered with purple and white. Stigmas deep yellow, 
very large, standing above the anthers.” — JL. 
* See fol. 1416. 
