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bracte ; and in one specimen of luteus growing with them in 
the seed bed it was wanting. The absence of the floral 
bracte constituted the only difference except colour between 
lageneflorus and lacteus of which no native situation is 
known, and the reason for dividing them fails. Mr. Youne 
of Milford nursery has a stock of lacteus concolor, sup- 
posed to have been raised from foreign seed, but the gen- 
tleman who introduced them is dead. C. Boryanus of 
Monte Nero in Cephalonia and the hills near Modon and 
Navarino is very like lacteus concolor, but it has the lorate 
bracte, and flowers in October. I have never seen it alive. 
In Greece, C. aureus grows in sand upon clay; and it 
seems that, cultivated in our country, it is so disposed to 
sport, that the sulphurei and luteus as well as the lactet may 
have proceeded from it; but I rather consider luteus to be 
a natural variety from some colder situation between the 
Danube and the Morea. I do not see sufficient cause for 
separating C. Syriacus without further examination of a live 
specimen ; nor C. Olivieri of Mons. Gay, from the very slight 
notice given of it by him from a dry specimen; but 1 think 
it doubtful whether the four last varieties should be looked 
upon as separate species, if the native country of C. luteus 
and stellaris could be ascertained. It is quite evident, that 
the Croc, which do not ripen their seed abundantly in our 
climate, become quite sterile from long reproduction by 
offsets. The history of lutescens is singular, for no variety 
appears on the spot where the aurei grow ; and if lutescens 
proceeded from them, why is it found at a distance? It is 
probably an old variety, and originally set where it has been 
found; and it may possibly be the sulphureus of Prof. 
Tipatpo from Corfu. No Crocus is indigenous in Great 
Britain. I remember seeing in 1809 Mr. Wuiuiams’s C. 
lacteus concolor (mesiacus, G., supra 111), and it was far 
from being white. He had but one bulb of it, and I have 
never seen exactly the like, though Mr. Ker speaks of hav- 
mg seen several. Mr. Srranaways possesses albus, but 
knows not where he obtained it. I have this spring observ- 
ed two bulbs of the Suffolk aureus, which I am satisfied 
were plain golden when sent from thence, of which one is 
now striped exactly like luteus, and the other, which is 
planted in eas with three fainter stripes the whole length 
Ss. 
of the sepa Luteus may be a remarkable seminal variety 
from aureus in cultivation. W. H. | 
