plant from Roumelia, confounded with C. speciosus in Sir 

 W. J. Hooker's herb. 1 requested that search might be made 

 for it in the forest of Belgrade, where I thought it likely to 

 g'row, and there it was found in flower without any leaf in 

 October. It differs from all known Croci in havino; wJdte 

 anthers and pollen. The filaments are also remarkable, being 

 yellow and hairy. C. longiflorus is a native of Italy and Sicily, 

 and flowers with us in October, or sometimes later, the leaf 

 accompanying the flower, which is very fragrant, of a pale red- 

 dish lilac, wdth the tube yellowish and the throat of very deep 

 yellow. It is closely akin to C. odorus of Mt. Verdala in Malta, 

 whereof the leaves rather precede the flower, and wdiich has the 

 throat very much paler, and the sepals and tube striped with 

 purple. C. Thomasianus has much affinity to C. sativus, and is 

 a native of Italy. C. Cartwrightianus was obtained last summer 

 from the Greek island Tino by J. Cartwright, Esq. and was 

 before unknown. It is evidently akin to C. Pallasianus. 

 C. Pallasianus is found in Tauria, and said to grow also in 

 the Cyclades, but is not sufficiently known and examined. 

 The figure given is from a dry specimen found by Prof. 

 Besser in Tauria, for the sake of comparison with C. Cart- 

 wrightianus. 



This opportunity may be taken to give some general infor- 

 mation concerning Croci. Thev grow naturally on high land 

 between the Atlantic and the Caspian, north of the Mediter- 

 ranean, one autumnal species being, however, found on the 

 heights near Tangiers ; and a vernal species was said to have 

 been seen on Atlas by Desfontaines, whose confused and 

 evidently erroneous description was taken from plants growing 

 in the Jardin des Plantes, and no Crocus has been yet found 

 by the French in Africa since their occupation of Algiers, 

 C. Pyrenseus (afterwards ill-named nudiflorus by Smith) is 

 found abundantly on the Pyrenees in September ; and the 

 kindred Asturicus, smaller, darker, a month later, and bearded, 

 near Gijon and Santander, Whether they meet in Biscay 

 and Navarre is not ascertained. Thev are distingfuished from 

 all others by a stoloniferous bulb producing its offsets at a 

 distance. In the mountain pine-woods of S. Spain, C. sero- 

 tinus grows, flowering with us in November and December, 

 the leaves beginning to accompany the flowers, and distin- 



