purple sepals, and shorter whitish petals, found in Wallachia 

 and the Bannat, and probably advancing into Roumelia. 

 C. campestris of Pallas, is identical with Fridwalski's C. hy- 

 bernus from Roumelia. Both it and Byzantinus are imper- 

 fectly known, and, not having seen any specimen of the 

 former, I entertain some doubt of their difference. The latter 

 is a very late flower, and was mistaken by Mr. Ker for C. 

 serotinus. Byzantinus is the earliest name. 



C. speciosus, the most beautiful autumnal Crocus, appears 

 first and in its best form in Transylvania, and extends into 

 Caucasus, but there is no certaintv of its bein^ found S. of 

 the Balkan, or even the Danube; the supposed C. speciosus 

 of Mount Athos, of which I have just received a dry flower 

 and some living bulbs, being a large variety of C. pulchellus 

 of this article found in Belgrade forest near Constantinople, 

 and also on the Asiatic side of the Bosporus. Crocus can- 

 cellatus, an early purple autumnal species, with hard and 

 widely reticulated coat-fibres, has been gathered near Nau- 

 plia, and of a smaller size on Mount Taurus and in Syria. 

 C. Tournefortianus of Gay, with very smooth coats and an 

 autumnal flower, is said by him to inhabit the Cyclades, but 

 is imperfectly and not otherwise known. A white autumnal 

 Crocus, described by Pohl from Paphos, is supposed by 

 Mons. Gay to be a variety of the same. Crocus reticulatus, 

 the vernal cloth of gold Crocus, first appears with a blueish 

 purple -streaked flower, and is called C. variegatus, near Trieste 

 in Lipiza wood, differing only in colour from the golden-striped 

 of the Crimea. In S. Podolia and near Odessa the streaked 

 white V. albicans appears ; and the blue is found also in 

 the Crimea, according to M. von Bieberstein, though probably 

 smaller than in the west. A small reticulate Crocus, differing 

 in the bulb-coats, with a pale lemon and sometimes golden 

 flower, is found on Gargarus ; and a specimen of a golden one 

 of larger size, with harder reticulation, was brought by Lady 

 Listen from Constantinople, of which the exact habitation is 

 not known. The extensive family of C. lagenseflorus, golden, 

 creamy, and white, with parallel-fibred coat, appears to begin 

 in Corfu and stretch by the Balkan to Asia Minor, Chios, 

 and some of the neighbouring islands. To this family belongs 

 the florid Crocus luteus of our gardens, of which the exact 



