bus. Variat flore maximo niveo stigmatibus saturate 
aurantiacis pluries et profundids fissis. Variat fig. 1 
etiam flore ceruleo-purpureo stigmatibus tenuioribus 
paucifidis, E Caucaso.—fig. 1+, corm. nudat. Variat 
fig. 1* stylo parvulo ex prov. Karabagh prope mare 
Casp. Herb. Hooker. 
Var. 2. Transylvanicus, fig. 2; (C. speciosus, Bot. Reg. 
25. 40. icone pro cerulescente perperam rubescente) 
cormo e majoribus (in cultis plurigemmato gemmis 
sepius bifloris) vagina interne proxima apice erosa, 
bracteé tubum marginibus non approximatis dimidio 
plus amplexa, germine flavescente, perianthio majore 
saturaté basin versis purpura-punctato, fauce flaves- 
cente, limbo obtusiore saturatiore, filamentis pallide 
flavescentibus subulatis, stigmatibus fasciculato-multi- 
fidis laciniolis superne sensim crassioribus.— Habitat m 
Transyloanid, unde Angliam advectus colitur. Specwm. 
ex Transylv. in Herb. Lindl. est. ¥ 
Var. 3. Laxior ; cormo modico gemma 1—2-flora, bractea 
tubum involvente, tubo confertids et saturatiis pur- 
pura-punctato limbo maximo, stigmatibus laxids effu- 
sis. Prostat venalis apud hortulanos Young et Pamp- 
lin.—Habitat ? Tauriam vel Caucasum ? 
The Genus Crocus extends between the Caspian and the 
Atlantic, as far North as 49° in S. Podolia, but Lam inform- 
ed that it does not cross the upper portion of the Danube in 
48°. I have not been able to learn what changes of soil or 
elevation arrest its progress northwards from Odessa and S. 
Podolia, and confine it to a much lower latitude in France; 
probably the want of drainage and of a dry subsoil ; for it 
usually affects high situations. Southward it reaches 35°, 
or thereabouts, in the line of Tangiers, Malta, Crete, Cyprus, 
and Syria near Aleppo. I find no trace of it further South, 
and I cannot conjecture Mr. Ker’s reason for naming C 
_ -reticulatus of the Danube and Caucasus, C. Susianus, Susa 
being near lat. 32, almost three degrees below the situa- 
tions in which Crocus has been yet found. The Russians 
have not met with it East of the Caspian or Volga. Des- 
FONTAINES described erroneously a Crocus vernus, yellow, 
purple, and white, in its varieties, as found on the ridge of 
_ Atlas, which will be within 35°; but his descriptions were 
taken from Parisian garden specimens, and I learn, that 
the only specimen in his Herbarium, which has the appeat- 
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