guished by channelled filaments. C. Salzmannianus of Tan- 

 giers, and one very imperfectly known near Lisbon, called 

 Clusianus by Gay, are probably allied to it. All the sorts 

 which are found A\^est of Italy have an involucre enclosing the 

 flower-stalk and lower part of the flower, whence Smith's 

 name for Pyrenseus was peculiarly unhappy, especially as the 

 flower has not only an involucre, but an unusually conspicuous 

 green spathe. 



The remaining sorts that belong to the West of Europe 

 are C. versicolor, a native of the neighbourhood of Nice, 

 and probably extending into Savoy, though it is not named 

 in Italian Floras, of which the throat is pale yellow and 

 smooth ; C. insularis (including minimus) of Corsica and 

 Sardinia, white-throated, but forming a link between versi- 

 color and suaveolens of Italy ; and C. vernus, (of which the 

 coats are subreticulate, the throat hairy and never yellow, and 

 of which the principal seats are the Alps and Apennines,) 

 appearing large and purple, at the height of 6,000 feet on 

 M. Pollino in July, and elsewhere in the S. of Italy ; small, 

 white with purple throat on the Splugen, larger and purple 

 or purple-throated white intermixed on the Wengern Alp, 

 5,300 feet high, piercing the yet unmelted snow on the flat 

 amidst short sour grass as late as June 19 ; elsewhere in 

 Switzerland on Alpine pastures even as high as 5,500 feet, 

 and on Mount Pilate 5,500 feet high, with a longer flower 

 (C. longiflorus, Hegetzchweiler,) in July and August, ex- 

 tending eastward by Cebennes to the Pyrenees, where it is 

 rare, and (if Brotero is correct) passing thence through the 

 N. of Spain to the mountains of Beira and Entre M. y D. ; 

 eastward white and obovate on the Bavarian, more acute and 

 white on the Carinthian, Alps ; and (if Besser's specimen is 

 correct) passing by the N. of Hungary into S. Podolia, which 

 seems to be the most northern seat of the native Croci, for 

 they are not known to cross the left bank of the Danube 

 above Vienna, and are stopped by alluvial lands to the N. 

 of Podolia and of the steppes near Odessa and in the 

 Crimea. 



Mons. Gay has named an autumnal Crocus of Majorca, 

 which he described imperfectly, C. Cambessedesianus, allied, 

 as he says, to the vernal Insularis, but perhaps more probably to 



