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CROCI autom 
Autumnal Crocuses. 
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TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. IrıpacE. 
CROCUS. Bot. Reg. 1843. fol. 21. 
1. C. pulchellus ; nudus, cormi tunicá preecipuá (i. e. exterioribus obsoletis 
persistente) membranaceä durä annulo ad basim fibris ciliato, perianthio 
pallidé subviolaceo intus saturatius venoso fauce luted pubescente, 
filam. luteis hispidis, antheris albis. In forestá Belgratensi prope By- 
zantium. V.2. major; perianthio majore, annulo vix ciliato, in monte 
Athone. (Fig. 1.) 
2. C. longiflorus; si mavis, C. odorus (v.) longiflorus ; involucro 1-2-fl. c. t. 
prec.reticulatá non cribrosä inferne parallelo-fibrosá, spathá virente, tubo 
lutescente, perianthio pallidé purpureo fauce saturate luted pubescente. 
In Italid et Trinacriá. Vidi sepalis extus luteo-striatis var. fortuitam. 
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3. C. ; si mavis, C. odorus (v.) Melitensis ; tubo et perianthio inferne 
extus saturaté purpurä striatis, fauce sublutescente pubescente. In monte 
(F na BA Melitensi. C. longiflori invol. quandoque in foliolum desinit. 
ig. 5. 
4. C. Thomasianus; involucratus, c. tun. preec. reticulatá non cribrosä in- 
ferne parallelo-fibrosä, tubo pallido, limbo saturaté violaceo, fauce pallidä 
pubescente. C. sativo affinis, in Italid. (Fig. 6.) 
5. C. Pallasianus ; involucratus c. tun. prec. tenuiter reticulatä, perianthio 
pallidé violaceo extus ad basim striato fauce pallidá pubescente. C. sa- 
tivo affinis. Neque perianthium vivum vidi, neque plantam dissecui ; icon 
ez sp. sicco in Taurid a cl. Besser lecto est, cum C. Cartwrightiano com- 
parandi gratid. (Fig. 2.) 
6. C. Cartwrightianus ; involucratus, c. tunicis tenuiter reticulatis perianthio 
albo intus purpurá venoso, fauce pubescente. In insulá Teno., C. Pal- 
lasiano affinis. (Fig. 3.) 
De preecedentibus pleniüs consulas Synops. Croc. nobis supra anno 1843, 
Misc. p. 26. et Syn. Cr. Addenda, &c. p. 82, 83. De C. cancellato in Syn. 
pro Taurid lege monte Tauro; C. serotini invol. 1-2-fl, est.—W. H. 
The first of these five autumnal Croci was sent to Spofforth 
by the kindness of J. Cartwright, Esq., H. M. consul-general 
at Constantinople. Having seen a dried specimen of the 
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