Tas. 6443, 
COLCHICUM montanum. 
Native of the- Mediterranan Region. 
Nat. Ord. Linitacka.—Suborder MELanTHIACEA. 
Genus Cotcuicum, Linn. ; (Kunth, Enum. vol. iv. p. 138). 
Cotcuicum montanum ; cormo ovoideo magnitudine mediocri, foliis synanthiis 
falcatis lanceolatis vel linearibus hyemalibus vel vernalibus sepissime 
tribus, floribus sepissime pluribus interdum 1-2-nis, perianthii tubo 2-3- 
pollicari, limbi segmentis lilacinis’ oblongis vel oblanceolatis, staminibus 
limbo subduplo brevioribus filamentis basi luteis strumoso-incrassatis, 
antheris purpureis, stigmatibus minutis subcapitatis. 
C. montanum, Linn. Sp. Plant. edit, ii. p. 485, excl. syn.; Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. 
tab. 424, figs. 940 to 943. 
C. bulbocodioides, M. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Caue. vol. i. p. 293; Kunth, Enum. vol. 
iv. p. 142. 
C. Ritchii, R. Br. in App. Denh. et. Clapp. p. 241; Kunth, Enum. vol. iv. p. 145. 
C. Bertolonii, Stev. in Act. Nov. Mosq. vol. vii. p. 268; Parlat. Fl. Ital. vol. iii. 
p. 190. 
C. Cupani, Guss. Prodr. Sic. vol. i. p. 452. 
As [have gone fully into the history and synonymy of 
this plant in a paper which is now printing in the Journal 
of the Linnean Society, I cite here only a few of the leading 
synonyms. I feel satisfied that there is only one species 
_ covered by all these names, and have ascertained, by inspection 
of the Linnean herbarium, that it is this plant which was 
sent by Loefling from Spain to Linneus, and which 
furnished the basis of his idea of Colchicum montanum, 
although some of the synonyms cited in the “Species 
Plantarum” do not really refer to it. The species ranges 
from Portugal eastward by way of Algeria and Italy to 
Egypt, Syria, Armenia, Kurdistan, and the Caucasus. The 
genus Monocaryum of Endlicher and Kunth is founded upon 
what is simply a monstrosity of this same plant, and I 
AUGUST -lsT, 1879. 
