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Crocus Vernus (/3 neapolitanus). Large 

 Purple Spring Crocus. 



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C/a/f #«i Onter. 

 Triandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character.— Fid. N um - 652. 



Obs. ®>uandQ de bulbo-tuberibus diclum fit, de ijiis defoliatis maturis 

 atque quiefcentibus inteUigendum eft. G. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



CROCUS vernus bulbo-tubere globofo, tunicis pullis reti- 

 culata -fib rofis involuto j ore tubi glandulis fili- 

 formibus irretitim occlufo ; ftigmatibus antheras 

 exfuperantibus. G. 



CROCUS vernus. Engl. Bot. t. 344. Hall. Helv. 1257. Jacq. 

 Aujlr. App. t. 36. Smith Flor. Brit. 1. 40. Willi* 

 Sp. PL 1. 



CROCUS fativus |3. Linn. Sp. PL 50. 



CROCUS officinalis $. HudJ. 13. 



p. neapolitawiSy flore magno purpureo. G. 



CROCUS vernus latifolius purpureus flore majore. Cluf. 

 Hift. 204. 



CROCUS vernus purpureus maximus. Park. Parad. 164. t. 



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CROCUS vernus latifolius flore purpureo. Ger. Emac. 150. 



/. 12. 



We are told by Clusius, that this large variety of the 

 Spring Crocus was fent him from Naples, whence probably 

 it was introduced into our northern gardens ; we have feen fub- 

 varieties of a white and of a bright light-blue colour. Blooms 

 in our gardens the lateft of its fpring congeners. The hair-fhaped 

 glands that cover the mouth of the tube in this fpecies, afford 

 an eafy didin&ion from mcefiacus, biflorus> and fitfianus, which 

 are all without them. 



The yellow Crocus, publifhed under the name of Crocus 

 vernus in the early part of this work, is not a variety- of tins, 

 but our Crocus mafiacus, fee N° 652; and N° 45> in " lhc 

 Enumeration of the Plants figured in the firft Twenty Volumes 

 of the Botanical Magazine," juft publifhed with the Index. (/. 



