( 2986 ) 
Crocus Aureus. GoxpEen Crocus. 
KEKE KEE EEK 
Class and Order. 
TRIANDRIA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Ininzz. ) 
Generic Character. 
— Cor. tubo longissimo, limbo regulari, 6-partito. Stam. 
corolle inserta. Stigmata 3, dilatata, serrulata aut incisa. 
Caps. 3-locularis. Spr. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Crocus* aureus ; biflorus, staminibus stigmata superantibus, 
filamentis glabris, corolla laciniis oblongis incurvato- 
patentibus (unicoloribus), bulbo fibris compactis trun- 
cato. 
Crocus aureus. « Sm. Prod. Fl. Gr. v. 1. p. 2. — FI. 
Onec..v. 1p, 2b:%:40,. i 3 ; 
Crocus lageneeflorus. Haw. in Hort. Soc. Tr. v. 1. p. 135. 
y: Salish. Parad. Lond. t. 106.” : 
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Descr. Bulb moderately large, coated with a compact 
mass of numerous short, parallel fibres. Foliage and tubes 
of the flowers surrounded for a greater part of their length 
with large, sheathing, circumvolute scales, of a whitish 
colour, tinged at the upper part with brown, and of so firm 
@ texture, that the former year’s scales remain, torn and 
ged, but of a dark brown colour, around the newly 
formed ones. Leaves, at the time of flowering, protruded 
for one third of their length beyond the sheathing scales, 
Mear-acuminate, erecto-patent. Flowers rather small, 
| ig always 
on ne 
= “pom, & thread, or filament, from the appearance of the saffron of the 
» Which is the dried stigmas of C. sativus. 
