guished by channelled filaments. C. Salzmannianus of Tan- 
giers, and one very imperfectly known near Lisbon, called 
Clusianus by Gay, are probably allied to it. All the sorts 
which are found West of Italy have an involucre enclosing the 
flower-stalk and lower part of the flower, whence Smith's 
. name for Pyrenseus was peculiarly unhappy, especially as the 
flower has not only an involucre, but an unusually conspicuous 
green spathe. 
The remaining sorts that belong to the West of Europe 
are C. versicolor, a native of the neighbourhood of Nice, 
and probably extending into Savoy, though it is not named 
in Italian Floras, of which the throat is pale yellow and 
smooth; C. insularis (including minimus) of Corsica and 
Sardinia, white-throated, but forming a link between versi- 
color and suaveolens of Italy ; and C. vernus, (of which the 
coats are subreticulate, the throat hairy and never yellow, and 
of which the principal seats are the Alps and Apennines,) 
appearing large and purple, at the height of 6,000 feet on 
M. Pollino in July, and elsewhere in the S. of Italy ; small, 
white with purple throat on the Splugen, larger and purple 
or purple-throated white intermixed on the Wengern Alp, 
5,800 feet high, piercing the yet unmelted snow on the flat 
amidst short sour grass as late as June 19; elsewhere in 
Switzerland on Alpine pastures even as high as 5,500 feet, 
and on Mount Pilate 5,500 feet high, with a longer flower 
(C. longiflorus, Hegetzchweiler,) in July and August, ex- 
tending eastward by Cebennes to the Pyrenees, where it is 
rare, and (if Brotero is correct) passing thence through the 
N. of Spain to the mountains of Beira and Entre M. y D.; 
eastward white and obovate on the Bavarian, more acute and 
white on the Carinthian, Alps; and (if Besser's specimen 1s 
correct) passing by the N. of Hungary into S. Podolia, which 
seems to be the most northern seat of the native Croci, for 
they are not known to cross the left bank of the Danube 
above Vienna, and are stopped by alluvial lands to the N. 
of Podolia and of the steppes near Odessa and in the 
Crimea. i 
Mons. Gay has named an autumnal Crocus of Majorca, 
which he described imperfectly, C. Cambessedesianus, allied, 
as he says, to the vernal Insularis, but perhaps more probably to 
