Tas. 6103. 
CRO CUS CANCELLATUS, 
Native of Greece and Asia Minor. 
Nat. Ord. InipEx.—Tribe Ix1ez. 
Genus Crocus, Tourn. ; (Klatt in Linnea, vol, xxxiv. p. 674). 
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Crocus cancellatus ; cormis mediocriter globosis, tunicis reticulatis fibrosis 
brunneis demum in fibras setiformes perianthii tubi basim circumdantes 
solutis, areolis elliptico-oblongis, foliis post anthesin evolutis 6-8-polli- 
caribus, vaginis latis membranaceis, spatha bivalvi vel monophylla, 
involucro, perianthii tubo albido vel pallide lilacino, segmentis albis, 
vel lilacinis purpureo striatis ellipticis acutiusculis, fauce lutea levi, 
antheris aureis filamentis levibus longioribus, stigmatibus crocels multi- 
fidis antheras superantibus. 
Crocus cancellatus, Herbert in Bot. Mag. sub t. 3864; Journ. Hort. Soc., 
vol. ii. p. 276; Baker in Gard. Chron, 1873, p. 1553. 
C. Schimperi, Gay in Schimp. Pl. Cephal. exsic. 
C. Spruneri, Boiss. ¢ Heldr. Diagn., vii. p. 103. 
C. mazziaricus, Herb. Bot. Reg. 1845, Misc., p. 3; Bot. Reg., 1847, t. 16,f£.5 &6. 
C. dianthus, K. Koch in Linnea, vol. xxi. p. 634. 
C. nudiflorus, Sibth. § Smith, Prod. Fl. Greec., p. 23 (excl. syn.). 
A well-known and beautiful species not apparently figured, 
except very ineffectively by Herbert. It is frequent in the 
Ionian Islands, Greece, Asia Minor, and reaches, it is said, 
eastward to Armenia. In Greece it ascends to 4000 feet 
and in Taurus to the Alpine region. The curious reticulated 
coats, with a texture which recalls cocoa-nut fibre, especially 
in the prolonged bristle-like fibres surrounding the neck 
(similar to those met with in Adlsuca setosa or Chlorogalum 
pomeridianum) distinguish this species from all the autumn 
flowering Crocuses. Amongst the spring-flowering species, 
coats of this kind are only found in @. 7 eticulatus and C. 
susianus. The specimens figured were received from G. Wood, 
_ Esq, of Rochford, Essex, early in November, 1873. 
‘Descr. Corm globose, about one inch in diameter, clothed 
with coarse reticulated fibrous coats (not well represented in 
JUNE Ist, 1874. 
