purple sepals, and shorter whitish petals, found in Wallachia 
and the Bannat, and probably advancing into Roumelia. 
C. campestris of Pallas, is identical with Fridwalski's C. hy- 
bernus from Roumelia. Both it and Byzantinus are imper- 
fectly known, and, not having seen any specimen of the 
former, I entertain some doubt of their difference. The latter 
is a very late flower, and was mistaken by Mr. Ker for C. 
serotinus. Byzantinus is the earliest name. 
C. speciosus, the most beautiful autumnal Crocus, appears 
first and in its best form in Transylvania, and extends into 
Caucasus, but there is no certainty of its being found S. of 
the Balkan, or even the Danube; the supposed C. speciosus - 
of Mount Athos, of which I have just received a dry flower 
and some living bulbs, being a large variety of C. pulchellus 
of this article found in Belgrade forest near Constantinople, 
and also on the Asiatic side of the Bosporus. Crocus can- 
cellatus, an early purple autumnal species, with hard and 
widely reticulated coat-fibres, has been gathered near Nau- 
plia, and of a smaller size on Mount Taurus and in Syria. 
C. Tournefortianus of Gay, with very smooth coats and an 
autumnal flower, is said by him to inhabit the Cyclades, but 
is imperfectly and not otherwise known. A white autumnal 
Crocus, described by Pohl from Paphos, is supposed by 
Mons. Gay to be a variety of the same. Crocus reticulatus, 
the vernal cloth of gold Crocus, first appears with a blueish 
purple-streaked flower, and is called C. variegatus, near Trieste 
in Lipiza wood, differing only in colour from the golden-striped 
of the Crimea. In S. Podolia and near Odessa the streaked 
white v. albicans appears; and the blue is found also in 
the Crimea, according to M. von Bieberstein, though probably 
smaller than in the west. A small reticulate Crocus, differing 
in the bulb-coats, with a pale lemon and sometimes golden 
flower, is found on Gargarus ; and a specimen of a golden one 
of larger size, with harder reticulation, was brought by Lady 
Liston from Constantinople, of which the exact habitation is 
not known. The extensive family of C. lagenzflorus, golden, 
creamy, and white, with parallel-fibred coat, appears to begin 
in Corfu and stretch by the Balkan to Asia Minor, Chios, 
and some of the neighbouring islands. To this family belongs 
the florid Crocus luteus of our gardens, of which the exact 
