Tas. 6176. 
CROCUS miniuvs. 
Native of Corsica. 
CROCUS FL etscueri. 
Native of Asia Minor. 
Nat. Ord. In1pacrm,—Tribe Ix1ez. 
Genus Crocus, Linn.; (Baker in Gard. Chron., 1873). 
Crocus minimus; vernalis, bulbo parvo ovoideo tunicis fibroso-membranaceis, 
scapo brevissimo spatha basali praedito, foliis 3-5 angustissimis synanthiis 
albido-vittatis marginibus revolutis, spatha propria univalvi, tubo pur- 
pureo 2-3-pollicari, limbi segmentis oblongo-oblanceolatis obtusis 
purpureis sepe albo-variegatis, fauce glabra albida, antheris flavis, 
filamentis glabris, stigmatibus integris fulvis. 
C, minimus, DC. Fl. Franc., v. iii. p.243; Red. Lil., t. 81; Reich. Ic. Crit., 
t. 1267; Ic. Fl. Germ., t. 7953; et aliorum, (non Bot. Mag., tab. 2994). 
C. insularis, Gay in Bull. Feruss., 1831, p. 221; Bot. Reg., 1843, t. 21; 
Herbert in Journ. Hort. Soc., vol, ii. p. 261. 
Crocus Fleischeri ; vernalis, bulbo ovoideo tunicis fibrosis, scapo brevissimo, 
spatha basali nullo, foliis pluribus angustissimis glabris albo-vittatis 
marginibus valde revolutis, tubo albido bipollicari, spatha propria 
univalvi, limbi segmentis albis oblongis subacutis dorso longitudinaliter 
purpureo-lineatis, fauce glabra lutea, antheris citrinis, filamentis glabris, 
stigmatibus fulvis multifidis, — 
C, Fleischeri, Gay in Bull. Feruss., 1831, p. 219. 
C. Fleischerianus, Herbert in Journ. Hort. Soc., vol. ii. p. 278. 
C. candidus, “ Clarke” ex Boiss. Diag., No. 13, p. 16. 
These are two welcome additions to our stock of spring 
Crocuses grown in this country. C. minimus was in the country 
before, but has been lost for many years, indeed till now, when 
Mr. George Maw has brought it again from Corsica. It is 
frequent in that island, flowering in low situations in 
January, and upon the mountains up to March, and occurs 
also in Sardinia. It is the smallest of all the spring- 
flowering Crocuses, and is most like some of the varieties of 
versicolor, but it has been confounded in this country with 
JU LY Ist, 1875. 
