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little green flowers at Syon. It is nearly allied to A, falcatus, 

 from which it differs in its smaller solitary leaves, and in the 

 flowers not growing in racemes. 



37. CROCUS medius. 

 Balhis. 



C. medius; cormi tunicis tenuiter cribrose reticulatis, vaginacea interiore 

 prope basim, foliaceis brevibus summo cormo affixis, foliis 2-3, flore 

 autumnali, scapo involucrato, spatha long^ exserta ebracteata, tubo 

 spatham superante, limbo purpureo. — W. H. 



Bulbs of this have been received by the Dean of Man- 

 chester from meadows about Varese, on the mountains of 

 Liguria. These having flowered at Spofl'orth, Mr. Herbert 

 has favoured us with the true character of the plant. 



38. ONCIDIUM lacerum. 



0. (teretifolia) lacerum ; foliis longis teretibus carinatis, panicula con- 

 tracta multiflora, sepalis petalisque conformibus obovatis concavis, labelli 

 elongati laciniis lateralibus linearibus refractis intermedia longe et 

 anguste unguiculata biloba margine lacera, cristse dente altero trans- 

 verso altero majore compresso a fronte, columnse brevis pubescentis alis 

 semiovatis. 



Panama has furnished this very pretty species to Messrs. 

 Loddiges, who flowered it in April IS^^. It has very much 

 the habit of O. longifolium, but has rather denser flowers, 

 with a lacerated and rather crisp middle lobe to the lip, and a 

 crest consisting of one transverse tubercle, like that of O. 

 nudum, and another larger, compressed, rounded, and at right 

 angles to it in front. 



39. TULIPA humilis. 



T. humilis ; foliis tribus (rariiis quatuor) humum prope divaricantibus cym- 

 biformibus fer^ linearibus subobtusis rectis glaucis margine purpureo, 

 scapo sesquiunciali Isevi purpurascente,periantliiosubsesquiunciali laciniis 

 acutis, petalis latioribus pallidissime purpurascentibus inferne Iset^ luteis 

 extus viridi striatis, sepalis intus veluti petala extus virescentibus margine 

 purpurascente basi livido-virente, filamentis luteis inferne complanatis 

 prope basim uti petalorum margines albo pubescentibus antheras longi- 

 tudine superantibus, germen petalinis fere sepalinis eequantibus. — W. H. 



This beautiful little Tulip is undescribed as far as I know. 

 It agrees with nothing in the books within my reach. It is 



