a foot high and Jess undulated. It is known under the name 
of C. variegatum, tessellatum, and agrippinum in English gar- 
dens, and is liable to be killed in severe winters. 
With regard to Haworth’s name of chzonense, cited with- 
out a reference by Kunth, I can nowhere else find it; and 
having no means of knowing to what plant he applied it, I 
hesitate to apply it to this, which should henceforth bear the 
name of the acute old botanist who first published it, and 
whose quaint and characteristic description I here give at 
length :— 
“This most beautiful Saffron flower riseth up with his 
flowers in the Autumn, as the others before specified do, 
although not of so large a size, yet far more pleasant 
and delightful in the thick, deep blew or purple-coloured 
beautiful spots therein, which make it excel all others what- 
soever: the leaves rise up in the Spring, being smaller then 
the former, for the most part three in number, and of a paler 
or fresher green colour, lying close upon the ground, broad’ 
at the bottom, a little pointed at the end, and twining or 
folding themselves in and out at the edges, as if they were 
indented. I have not seen any seed it hath born: the root is 
like unto the others of this kinde, but small and long, and 
not so great: it flowreth later for the most part then any of 
the other, even not until November, and is very hard to be 
preserved with us, in that for the most part the root waxeth 
lesse and lesse every year, our cold country being so contrary 
unto his natural, that it will scarce shew his flower; yet 
when it flowreth any thing earlie, that it may have any com- 
fort of a warm Sun, it is the glory of all these kindes.”— 
Paradisus Terrestris, p- 156.—J. D. A. 
