ance of having been gathered wild, though mu maged 
seems more like C. versicolor; but no Srodis ieee dis- 
covered in the French expeditions from Algiers. ‘The 
beautiful autumnal Crocus here represented belongs to the 
division with a naked scape, wanting the involucre; and 
none such have been found West of Italy. ReIcHENBAcH’s 
C. speciosus is C. Byzantinus Parkinson and Ker, Banna- 
ticus of Gay. Wiutson’s (Eng. Bot.) is C. Pyreneus, Par- 
KINSON, (nudiflorus of Smiru, and multzfidus of Ranow 1% 
very different plant, with an involucrate spathe and stoloni- 
ferous bulbs. The first variety, kindly sent to me by Mons 
Gay, is from Caucasus and the hills near Tifflis; the white 
subvariety is a dry specimen from Caucasus. The second 
more conspicuous, from Transylvania, may be obtained 
from Mr. Osporne’s Nursery at Fulham. The third is cul- 
tivated at Mr. Youne’s Nursery, at Milford, near Godalmin 
and at Mr. Pampetin’s, Lavender Hill, near Battersea. It is 
probably from Tauria, or Caucasus, unless it be the C. spe- 
ciosus said to be found on Mount Athos. The seeds of C. spe- 
ciosus are of a deep purplish rust colour, larger than those 
of C. longiflorus, which approach them in colour. W. H. 
CROCORUM SYNOPSIS. 
TRIDACER. Exspadicee, corolliformes, agynandre, hexapetaloidee, — 
epigyne, triandre. IRIDEZ. Stamina sepalina. se ie | 
CROCUS. Cormus annuus tunicarum vaginacearum et foliacea- 
rum basibus circumnotatus, folia sublinearia dorso bicanaliculato costa- 
to, scapt 1—5 involucrati vel involucro obsoleto nudi, trigoni uni- 
raré bi-flori vaginis inclusi, spatha tubata vel tubum amplexa intus 
bracteata vel bractei obsoleta ebracteata, germen subcylindrico-sub- 
ta, limbus regularis, filamenta ori 
connectivo subdorsali super- 
ate loculis a vertice sublateraliter scissis, stylus 
(lusu interdum 2—4-lobus) sti tibus sensim 
dilatatis, truncatis, vel fimbriato-plicatis, vel pauci- m ti-fidis, fe tems 
i -eista trivalvis trilocularis reflexé dehis- 
cens, semina raphe rugosa subsp 
pallescente vel rufescente vel purpurascente. 
subtruncate vaginarum 3— extrafoliacearum, foltacee s@pe longeé 
apiculate foliorum sub-12, bases sunt inflato-tubate ; foliac t 
et sepius vaginacea interior, exteriores sepe depereunt ; 20na radica- _ 
lis (t. e. fibras radicales emittens) unica 
