Tas, 6141, 
CROCUS ByzanTINUS, 
Native of Transylvania and the Banat, 
Nat. Ord. IrnmrEa,—Tribe Ixin@. 
Genus Crocus, Tourn.; (Klatt in Linnea, vol. xxxiv. p. 674). 
_ Crocus byzantinus; cormo parvo depresso-globoso, rete e fibris longitudi« 
nalibus gracilibus dense intertextis in vaginam foliorum basim cingentem 
producto, foliis 3-4 vernalibus }-poll. latis, floribus autumnalibus soli- 
tariis, perianthii tubo 4~—6-pollicari ad medium vaginis albis tecto, 
limbo 3-34 poll. diam. pallide purpureo v, lilacino, foliolis ellipticis _ 
acutis, interioribus pallidioribus v. albis dimidio minoribus, antheris 
flavis filamentis longioribus, stigmatibus purpureis apice capillaceo- 
7-10-fidis, 
Crocus byzantinus, Ker in Bot. Mag., sub tab. 1111; Herbert in Bot. Reg. 
1847, t. 4, f. 5; et in Journ. Hort. Soc., vol. ii. p. 269; Baker in Gard. 
Chron. 1873, p. 1633. 
C. banaticus, Gay in Bull. Feruss., vol. xv. p. 220, non Heuffel. 
C. speciosus, Reichb. Pl. Crit., t. 1267-8, non M. Bieb. 
C. iridiflorus, Heuf’. Qister. Bot. Wochenb. 1857, p. 222; Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ., 
vol. ix. t. 861, f. 802-3. 
C. Hubertianus, Kernike in Walp, Ann., vol. vi. p. 37. 
Crociris iridiflora, Schur. Sert. 1853, p. 73. 
Crocum montanum, Clus, Hist., vol. i. p. 209. 
Crocus byzantinus argenteus, Parkins. Par. p. 168, t. 169, f. 3. 
A late autumnal species of Crocus, remarkable for its acute 
perianth segments, and the small size of the three interior of 
these. Its synonymy is numerous and intricate, and for this 
I am indebted to Mr. Baker’s valuable paper on Croci in the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle. It is one of the eailiest introduced of 
the exotic species, being figured by Clusius in the very com- 
mencement of the seventeenth century (1601), from whom 
the specific name dyzantinus is adopted, he having received it 
from Constantinople, where however it is unknown to 
JANUARY IsT, 1875. 
