; 
dry specimens, I am able to supply the deficiency. C. Tourne- 
fortianus was known to Mons. Gay by a specimenfrom Milo ; 
my bulbs sent by Mr. Cartwright, are understood to have 
come from Thermia, and it is remarkable that the summits of 
those two islands and Crete, are the only known abodes of C. 
levigatus, the autumnal Tournefortianus probably growing at 
a much less elevation. It proves to be a second species with 
white anthers like those of C. pulchellus ; filaments pale yellow 
and hairy; the limb of the flower is not violet as Mr. Gay 
supposed, but white with a blueish blush, and it acquires a 
much deeper shade of colour when dry. For C. Clusianus I 
am indebted to the kindness of F. N. Hodgson, Esq. of Man- 
chester and his brother residing at Lisbon. Observing in the 
geological map that calcareous patches occurred near Lisbon, 
and a large extent of that formation at Cintra, I sent a 
rough sketch made from the dry specimen kindly lent to me 
by Mr. Gay, requesting that the plant might be looked for in 
September ; and it was found plentiful at Cintra, more rare 
near Lisbon. It produces its flowers and leaves together, 
having rather the aspect of a darker purple variety of C. odorus 
Melitensis and longiflorus, but it has the feathery style of C. 
Pyrenæus, medius, Byzantinus, and speciosus. It is the only 
Crocus I have seen producing three flowers from one invo- 
lucre, and that in the wild specimens not unfrequently, and 
sometimes two of them simultaneously. The leaves are 
smooth. Flowering early in the autumn it will be a valuable 
addition to our gardens. 
Crocus pulchellus in cultivation has in one year more than 
doubled the size of its bulbs, and instead of producing only one 
one-flowered shoot, had in some instances three shoots and 
some two-flowered, and the flowers of an increased size. 
A Crocus unknown to me is to be added to the Synopsis. 
C. Carpetanus ; Boissier et Reuter Diagn. pl. nov. Hisp. 
Flowers under the firs in spring on the northern slope of the 
Sierra da Guadarama in Spain, and is perhaps identical with 
the C. vernus of Brotero found in Beira and Entre M. y D. 
Its coats are reticulate, margin of the leaves serrated, tube 
much longer than the spathe, limb pale lilac with throat 
white and smooth, stigma multifid (each lobe three or four- 
split) pale violet with darker stripes. — 
Í have not yet been able to obtain this plant. 
As far as I can learn, C. vernus inhabits elevated flats on 
