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Crocus MINIMUS. Least PurpLe Crocus. 
KEEK EEE EEE EKER ERE REESE 
Class and Order. 
TrIANDRIA Monoeyntia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Iniwez. ) 
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 minimus ; stigmatibus erectis inclusis flore solitaris 
stamina superantibus, antheris acutis, foliis lineari-fili- 
formibus, bulbis tunico membranaceo. 
Crocus minimus. Redouté, Pl. Lil. v. 2. t. 81. De Cand. 
Fl. Fr. ed. 3. v. 3. p. 243. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. 
v. 1. p. 367. Duby et De Cand. Bot. Gall. v. 1. p. 453. 
Muller in Un. It. 
C.nanus. De Cand. Syn. Gall. p. 168. 
C. reticulatus. Syn. Engl. Fl. v. 4. p. 262. (excl. syn.) Hook. 
Brit. Fl. p. 17. 
‘memes 
Descr. Bulb small, rounded, with a dark-brown, mem- 
ranous coat, below having the flattened layers of former 
years’ bulbs. Above this are the sheathing scales, which 
Surround the plant for about two-thirds of its length, and 
Which are remarkably slender, whitish. Leaves three or 
four only, shorter than the flower, very narrow, linear-fili- 
form, pale and depressed in the middle, having a flat, broad 
keel at the back, the margins revolute. Flower solitary : 
its tube slender, white, yellow upwards, where it widens to 
form the limb, which has six horizontally-patent, oblong, 
elicate, bluish- urple segments, nearly equal in size: the 
tee outer having three deep-purple, feathery seas ; 
