The leaves of this fpecies have a filvery or glaucous kind of — 
bloom upon them, are fomewhat paler underneath, and with — 
us the fummits are generally killed by the froft. Other va- 
rieties, perhaps’ {pecies, of thefe chequered flowering kinds — 
are enumerated by the older Botanifts; and as this is the only 
one we ever had an opportunity of feeing, we have not been 
able to develop their fynonymy to our fatisfaftion. We are told 
it isa native of the Greek Iflands. Others of the chequered kind 
are faid to come from Portugal and Naples. The roots often 
flower while lying in the fhop windows for fale. Of as ealy 
culture asthe common Crocus. Blooms in autumn; the leaves” 
are not grown to perfeétion till May. Cultivated in 1629, by 
Parkinson. G, 
SrecireRUM SYNTHESIS. 
montanum. /Willd. Sp. Pl. 2.273. Mzrennera Bulbocodium. 
Redoute Liliac. tab. 25. 
arenarium. Kitaib. Pl. Rar. Hung. tab. Co.cn. montanum 
verficol. fl. Clu/. Hi. 201. fig. 2. 
Bulbocodium. Nos. (BuLBocopium vernum, /upra No. 153-) 
autumnale. Engl. Bot. tab. 133. 
polyanthon. Nos. C. pannonicum. Clu/. Hif?. 199. An /pecies 
. — fatts difinfa? G. : 
variegatum. Supra tab. 1028. 3 
byzantinum. Nos. C. byzantinum. Clu/. Hifi, 199, 200. 
cum Ie 
Oxs. An a predidiis ae pecifice diferiminanda Coicuicum Lufi- 
tanum fritillaricum et C. Neapolitanum fritillaricum. Park, Parad. 
155) 156. ? : 
