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entertain no doubt of its being calcareous. A specimen of 
the flower of this plant gathered at the end of October, 1843, 
was sent to me by Mr. Theodore Kotschy, and by his accu- 
rate description of the place of its growth, and the kind assis- 
tance of the British Vice-Consul at Trebizond, Mr. Cart- 
wright has been able most obligingly to procure for me a 
fresher flower gathered last month, viz. October, 1844, and I 
understand that the living roots have been taken up; but I 
do not hear that the blue or rather perhaps purple flower has 
been yet discovered.—W. H. 
4. CROCUS Mazziaricus. 
C. Mazziaricus ; cormi tunicis vaginaceis fibris tenuibus confertim reticulatis 
inferne citò laceris fugacibus basi persistente fibris radiatis + uncialibus 
tenuibus setosis, foliaceà exteriore subtiliter reticulata prope basim, 
proximá subsimili minore juxta verticem, cæteris parvulis summo cormo 
affixis, foliis hysteranthiis circiter quatuor, spathà nudà [ebracteatà, ni 
fallor] 2 unc. liberà, perianthio concolore albo, tubo sesquiunciam libero, 
limbo circiter sesquiunciali, antheris stylo gracili superne tenuiter sub- 
multifido pallidé coccineo semunciam vel infra brevioribus. Antherarum 
color adhuc incertus est. Ad C. Damascenum et C. reticulatum spectat. 
Crocone vallicole affinis, vallicole cormo adhuc ignoto, non satis constat. 
Floret Octobri circa radices montis Cariæ et in vicinid Caradiatieæ in 
Leucade a dom. 4. D. Mazziari, sed non alibi, inventus. Ex basi t. vag. 
int. radiatá setosd scapum nudum esse conjicio.—W. H. 
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5. CROCUS Ionicus. 
C. Ionieus ; spathá 2 unc, liberá acuta (ni fallor in sicco, ebracteatá superne 
bifida) perianthio albo ? [in sicco concolore stramineo] tubo $-$ unc. 
libero, limbo unciali acuto, filamentis ori cylindri insertis + uncialibus, 
antheris circiter $ stigmata tenuiter et profundé multifida recta non 
sequantibus, foliis quinque subsimultaneis ortu angustissimis. Cormus 
a me non visus est, neque innotuerunt tunice; a C. Cartwrightiano et 
cæteris quee ad sativum spectant stylo non subtruncato pendulo, a 
Pyrenso, specioso, medio, Byzantino et Clusiano stylo non capitato- 
multifido discedit; cormo nondum viso, nescio an C. Tournefortiani 
varietati Venereæ affinis. C. Ionicus Corcyram in collibus Botumiæ et 
Cephalo Ypso prope domum dom. Pieri defuncti, et Leueadem in monte 
inter Phrinem et Phanerominem usque ad Zucalades habitans autumno 
floret. A dom. A. D. Mazziari lectus.—W. H. 
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