parum vel longè infra medium, proximis gradatim altiüs affixis, fohorum 
cire. 7 synanth. marginibus crassis brevibus costa vix nervatä levi 
canaliculis enervibus, scapo involucrato, spathá pallidé subvirescente 
exsertä ebract atä, tubo exserto, limbo circ. 1$ unc. acuto pallidé violaceo, 
fauce levi intus sublutescente extus nebulosé substriato, fil. levibus 
luteis anth. aureas non zquantibus, stigmatibus pallidě aurantiaceis 
aspré multifidis erectis anth. zequant. vel superantibus. Fl. autumnali ; 
habitat colles prope Tingidem. 
F. 5. C. Byzantinus, Parkinson, Par. 168. Ker, Bot. Mag. 1111. p. 2. a.D. 
1808; C. Banaticus, Gay, B. F. 25, 220. a.p. 1831; C. speciosus 
Reich. icon. B. c. 10; C. ¿ridiflorus, Heuffel et Reich.— c. depressé com- 
planato, tunicis tenuibus vaginaceis demum in fibras liberas subreticulatis 
inferne parallelas solutis, interiore circiter medio, proximä prope basim 
affixà, foliaceis reticulaté nervatis supra med. c. affixis, scapo involucrato, 
spathä ebracteatà 1-2-florä, sepalis patentibus leeté violaceis sesquiuncia- 
libus vel ultra, 14 unc. vel infra latispetala multum angustiora erecta apici- 
bus recurvis pallidiora vel subalba apice violacea longè superantibus, fauce 
levi alba, antheris luteis, filamentis albis levibus infra faucem insertis, 
stigmatibus multifidis diffusis saturaté violaceis, folis hysteranthiis 
utrinque attenuatis. Fl. autumnali ; in sylvis Banatüs ; in Wallachid 
prope Krassoviam ; ex Byzantio accepit Parkinson.—W. H. 
Crocus Byzantinus, a beautiful and very remarkable 
species, was so named by Parkinson, who received it from 
Constantinople, and the name was confirmed by Mr. Ker, 
and published by him long before the application of the other 
names. Iridiflorus would have been the most appropriate. 
C. chrysanthus does not belong to C. annulatus, as conjec- 
tured from Fridwalski's specimen, while the rings belong to 
the inner vaginaceous coat of many successive years. C. 
nivalis, first discovered by Bory on Taygetus, does not agree 
with Gay's description of his C. Sieberi from Crete and the 
Troad, but is identical with our C. sublimis, which, on the 
faith of Mons. Gay's assertion that nivalis was his Sieberi, 
was supposed to be distinct. The name sublimis must there- 
fore give way to nivalis, by which the species must be called. 
Whether Mons. Gay's error was merely the supposing the 
Greek plant to be identical with that which he had from Crete 
and the Troad, I know not. If they are identical, and the 
error is in his description from dry specimens which are not 
easily investigated, the name given in an erroneous definition 
must fal to the ground, and cannot supersede Bory's. C. 
Salzmannianus is perhaps the only African Crocus, but it 
will probably not flower freely here except after hot summers. 
The flowers of C. Byzantinus vary a good deal in colour, and 
are often much larger and taller than in the accompanying 
plate. C. Veulchensis has much affinity to C. vernus.—W. H. 
