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the variety of the vernal C.reticulatus called variegatus, which 
grows in Lippiza forest near Trieste, is evident; but it pro- 
duced its flower at Spofforth in September before the leaf, 
which immediately followed its decay. No yellow Crocus 
having been sent from Damascus, this is probably the plant of 
which the roots are eaten by the natives. The hills near 
Damascus are the most southern habitation of Crocus yet 
ascertained. The summit of Lebanon with which they are 
connected being 9520 feet high, they are probably very 
elevated.— W. H. 
2. CROCUS intromissus. 
C. intromissus ; (forsan C. sativus, var. intromissus) cormo pyriformi, tunicis 
pallidè purpureo-brunneis (ut in sativo) vaginaceis fibris submollibus 
tenuibus parallelis superne reticulatim confluentibus duâbus pariter ferè 
ad cormi basim tertià internà parum supra affixis, foliaceis similibus 
dimidiatis vel spiree modo connatis apice multifido complanato submolli, 
exteriore medio cormo vel supra ceteris gradatim altiüs affixis, foliis 
quatuor suberectis levibus. Cormus unicus cum C. Damasceno effossus 
est tunicis annorum quinque integris et mature magnitudinis octonis igitur 
natalibus vel ultra, absque cormorum incremento, satis tunicas sativo 
similis, multo minor, foliis paucis levibus. Flos, adhuc ignotus vernus 
forsitan eveniet. Sativo incrementum abundans est, folia ciliata permulta, 
11-12.—W. H. 
3. CROCUS. vallicola 
C. vallicola; flore autumnali, spathá (ebracteatä ?) circiter sesquiunciam 
exsertá, perianthio albo 13 unc. acuto maculis binis luteis in laciniæ 
cujusque regione inferiore, sepalis vix $ unc. latis, petalis parum angus- 
tioribus, tubo ultra unciam libero superne ultra } unc. ampliatè pro- 
ducto, filamentis albis + unc. antheris semuncialibus (ni fallor in sicco) 
albis ? stigmata sæpissimè apice bifida ferè sequantibus, stylo pallidè 
subaurantiaco gracili. Foliis hysteranthiis et cormo nondum visis ; fila- 
mentis cum fauce, ni fallor in sicco, levibus. In societate Croci cujusdum 
coerulescentis sub fine Octobris floret, in convalle monticulosá alpium 
Trapezunticarum ad pedes vallis orientalis summe in monte Koulak Dagh 
dicto, ab hospitio primo in cacumine plus hore unius itineris spatio a 
pago Stauros dicto accedenti. 
Stauros is situated in the province of Trebizond, on the 
road to Erzerum. The pass is not open till late in June, and 
the height of the Koolak mountain can scarcely be less than 
5000 feet, if it be not greater. From the Croci found there I 
