Var. 6.2 Luteus, Lam. Enc. 6. 385; t. externis membrana- 
ceis tenuibus basi cireumsciss’ tantiim persistentibus, 
tun. vag. interiore parallelo-fibrosa prope basim affixa, 
foliacea exteriore dura nitida sulcata superne confluen- 
ter fibrosA apiculaté longé infra medium vel obliqué 
affixa, foliorum canaliculis fortis nervatis, spatha 
bracteat& perian. majore aureo fauce extus lineata.— 
C. vernus, perperam supra 45.—C. Moesiacus, Ker. 
Habitatio incerta, sed procul dubio inter Istrum et Pelo- 
ponesum sita. Valdé robustiorem, senio. tamen apud 
nos sterilem, ex semine aureo prognatum vix credo. 
Var. 7.?:. Olivierianus ; ipse non novi. C. Olivieri, Gay, 
Bull. de Ferus. 25. 219; tunica vag. ext. ut in aureo et 
luteo, foliaceis lavissimis supra medium affixis, folio- 
rum basibus (petiolis, Gay) liberis, bractea (dimidiata, 
Gay) lorata, stigmatibus 4—6-exasperatis. Habitat 
in insulé Chio; Gay. W. H. 
Four or five bulbs of this exceedingly pretty Crocus were 
discovered at different times fifty or seventy yards apart 
under trees, and within one hundred yards from the spot 
where C. lageneflorus aureus, and C. annulatus argenteus 
are naturalized under certain oak trees within a space 
about a quarter of a mile in circumference in Barton Park, 
Suffolk, by Mr. Turner, the intelligent gardener of the 
Bury Botanical establishment. I apprehend the reason 
why these bulbs are found only under the trees to be, that 
the grass is there less vigorous, and the shade of the 
branches and suction of the roots prevent their rotting dur- 
ing the season of rest in very wet autumns. Aureus is found 
to be established also under some trees in the gardens of 
Wentworth House in Yorkshire, and the seed collected 
from them having been sown by Mr. Cooper in a dug bor- 
der has produced much variety, many with the dark lines, 
which are peculiar to /uteus, more or less perfectly marked, 
some like sulphureus concolor, but with perfect anthers, 
some nearly as pale as /utescens, and one perfectly white, 
which is supposed to have sprung from that seed, is, with 
the other varieties, now at Spofforth. There is no variabi- 
lity amongst the Croci under the trees either in Suffolk or 
at Wentworth ; but one from Suffolk flowered one season 
semidouble with faint purple lines, and the next season 
single and without lines. Under the Suffolk trees they 
have the lorate bracte, but I have seen It short and small in 
one or two; and at Wentworth they are chiefly without the 
bracte ; 
