4G TRIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Crocus. 

 19. CROCUS. Crocus. 



Linn.Gen.25. Juss.59. Fl. Br. 39. Tourn. 1. 183, 184. Lam. t. 30. 



Nat. Ord. Ensatce. Linn. 6. Irides. Juss. 18. n. 20 and 

 21 the same. 



C#/. radical, of 2 unequal, membranous, tubular sheaths, 

 single-flowered. Cor. superior ; tube cylindrical, erect, 

 3 or 4- times the length of the limb, which is regular, in 6 

 elliptic-oblong, equal segments, 3 of them partly internal. 

 Filam. in the mouth of the tube, shorter than the limb. 

 Anth. arrow-shaped, erect. Germ, at the root, inferior, 

 roundish. Style thread-shaped, very long, rising as high as 

 the stamens. Stigm. 3, dilated upwards, variously folded, 

 jagged, or many-cleft. Caps, membranous, of 3 cells, 

 and 3 valves. Seeds several, globular. 



Stem or stalk none. Bulb solid, externally coated. Leaves 

 several, recurved, linear, keeled, revolute, smooth, with a 

 white central stripe, radical as well as thejlowers, which 

 are blue or yellow, vernal or autumnal. 



* 1. C. sativus. Saffron Crocus. 

 Stigma prominent laterally, in three deep, linear, notched 

 segments. 



C. sativus. Linn. Sp. PI. 50, a. Willd. v. 1 . 1 94. Vahl Enum. 



V.2.A5. Fl. Br. 39. Woodv. t. 176. Redout. Liliac. t. 1/3. 

 C. officinalis. Huds. 13, a. Mart. Rust. t.58. 

 C autumnalis. Engl. Bot. v. 5. t. 343. 

 Crocus. Rati Syn. 374. Ger. Em. 151./. Trag. Hist. 763./. 



Fuchs. Hist. 441. f. 

 Crocum. Matlh. Valgr. v. 1. 62, 63./,/. Camer. Epit. 33. / 



In meadows and pastures, naturalized probably. 



Perennial. September. 



Fl. snorter than the leaves, large, purple. Throat without hairs. 

 Stigm. deep-orange, fragrant, narrow, a little dilated upwards, 

 and notched at the summit. Anth. pale yellow. The stigmas 

 are the officinal Saffron. 



2. C. vernus. Purple Spring Crocus. 



Stigma within the flower, in three short wedge-shaped 

 jagged lobes. Tube of the corolla hairy at the mouth. 



C. vernus. Willd. v. 1. 195. Vahl Enum. v. 1. 46. Fl. Br. 40. 



Engl. Bot. v.5. t. 344. Ker in Curt. Mag. t. 860. Jacq. Austr. 



app. t. 36. Redout. Liliac. t. 266. 

 C. sativus. Linn. Sp. PI. 50, /3. 

 C. officinalis. Huds. 13, /3. 

 C. n. 1257. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 127. 



