the throat within is yellow. Stamens deep orange: Anthers 
sagittate, very acute. Stigmas longer than the stamens, of 
the same colour with them, two short, one much longer, 
slender, yet broader, and unequally laciniated at the ex- 
tremity. 
It is singular that nearly the first knowledge, if not the 
very first, of this plant among British Botanists, should arise 
from the circumstance of its being considered a native of 
this country. Mr. Dawson Turner communicated speci- 
mens to Sir J. E. Smrrn as such, from Sir Cuaries Bun- 
Bury’s Park, Barton, Suffolk. These were published in 
the English Flora as the Crocus reticulatus of BrepErsTEIN, 
and not having then seen their roots, I was led into a simi- 
lar error in my own British Flora. The same friends who 
sent me recent specimens of C. aureus already figured, sent 
also the present one, and the slightest view of the bulbs was 
sufficient to satisfy me that it was quite different from the 
C. reticulatus: and I can only suppose that Sir James E. 
SmirH, as was my case in the British Flora, taking it for 
granted that it belonged to the latter species, described 
the roots from the true plant in his own Herbarium. 
I offer no apology for introducing this, a presumed 
British plant, into the Botanical Magazine: for besides that 
it is, as far as I can learn, unknown in our gardens, it is 
amply deserving of being cultivated, being as elegant, and 
as prettily varied with colour, as any in the Genus: and I 
think it may be reckoned among the most distinct. Its 
slender, sheathing scales, very narrow leaves, long stigmas, 
and the deep orange colour of these, and of the acute 
anthers, together with the membranous, not in the least 
reticulated, coat of the bulb, are some of its most prominent 
characteristics. 
Fig. 1. Stamen, 2. Pistil, 3. Section of the Leaf,—Magnified. 
