TRIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Crocus. 47 



C. vernalis cseruleus. Deering Nott. 60. 

 C. vermis, flore purpureo. Ger. Em. 154. f. 



In meadows about Nottingham plentifully, first observed by 

 Deering. 



Perennial. March. 



Fl. much like the last, occasionally white. Leaves less revolute. 

 Stigm. pale, inodorous. Mr. Ker first noticed an assemblage of 

 entangled, jointed, pellucid hairs, closing the top of the tube - } 

 an excellent character of this species. It is very common in 

 gardens, flowering a fortnight later than the still more abundant 

 Yellow Crocus, Curt. Mag. t. 45. 



3. C. reticulatus. Net-rooted Crocus. 



Stigma within the flower, in three obtuse undivided seg- 

 ments. Three outer segments of the corolla recurved. 

 Coat of the bulb strongly reticulated. 



C. reticulatus. Marsch. Taur.-Caucas. v. 1. 28. 



C. susianus. Ker in Curt. Mag. v. 18. t. 652. Dryand. in Ait. 

 Hort. Kew. ed.2. v. 1. 81. 



C. vernus latifolius, flavo vario flore. Clus. Hist. v. 1. 206./. 



C. vernus latifolius flavo varius. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 121./. 4. 



C. vernus latifolius, flore flavo, striis violaceis. Ger. Em. 155./. 



C. orientalis vernus, flore subcseruleo, externe spadiceo-rubente. 

 Tourn. Cor. 25. 



In grassy pastures or meadows. 



In Sir Henry Bunbury's park, at Barton, Suffolk, very plentifully, 

 and certainly wild. Mr. Dawson Turner. 



Perennial. March. 



Smaller than any other of our wild species. Bulb very remarkable 

 for its strong, dense, wiry coating, of stout, rigid, interbranching 

 fibres, firmly connected, and making a curious net-work. Leaves 

 rather narrow. Fl. one or two. Three inner segments of the 

 corolla erect ; outer ones permanently recurved, and marked 

 externally with three longitudinal, dark-purple, somewhat fea- 

 thery, stripes ; the ground of the whole corolla being whitish, 

 or pale blue, or yellow. Our's agrees in colour with original 

 specimens of the C. reticulatus J3 of the Fl. Taur.-Caucasica, 

 the a having yellow Jlowers as in the Bot. Mag. I cannot but 

 prefer an expressive name to one liable to many objections. At 

 least I would give botanists their choice. Mr. Ker has well dis- 

 tinguished this species ; and he justly remarks that its repre- 

 sentations in the older books are very characteristic, though I 

 think not that of the Hort. Eystetensis, especially in the root. 



4. C. nudtflorus. Naked-flowering Crocus. 

 Stigma within the flower, in three deeply-laciniated tufted 



segments. Flower unaccompanied by leaves. 



