( 2673 ) = 
CROCUS-FLOW- _ 
CoLcHICcUM CROCIFLORUM 
ERED Mescow 
a 
Class and Order, 
HExANDRIA Todituia. i. 
Generic Character. | 
Spatha.-Cor. 6-fida: seen radicato. Capsule 3, connexe, 
inflate. 3 ; 
Specific, Character. 
CoLcHicum crociflorum ; how pauciflora, laciniis corolle 
obtusissimis tubo vix bis brevioribus, foliis lanceolatis. 
This. Coxcarcum, hic ich appears to us to be an unde- 
scribed species, was rai d at the Botanical Garden belong- 
ing to the Apothecaries’ Company. It was one of a selec- 
tion of roots of the officinal Colchicum had at the Hall 
from three differen counties, from which Mr. AnpErson 
informs us, as many different species. were produced. The 
one from which our drawing was taken, was supposed to be 
collected in the neighbourhood of Hertford, but appears to 
us to be different from the autumnale figured in English 
Botany. ‘che flower resembles more that of Byzantinum, 
but the tube is much shorter : the foliage is very different, 
having four or five lanceolate leaves, of a darker colour, 
growing ae ong the stem, which they sheath at 
the base. Z , ee ; i ¢ ifs 
a Re. 4 
eg FE Tea 
- sities i ae = _ 
Eo eo + x 
