TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Crocus. 67 



R. Leaves bearing the flowers on the upper surface, naked. aculea / tus. 



! E. bot. b6Q-Wood<v. 237~Knipb. \~Sheldr. U-Mill. lit.- 



Trag. 9\9-Lon. i. 78. H-Blackw. 155-Cam. epit. 935- 

 Park. 9.53-Gars. 501-Mattb. \2U-J. B. i. a. 579- 

 Dod. 7*A-Lob. obs. 36 l 2. l ; it. i. 637- 2.-Ger. em. 907- 

 H. ox. xiii. 5. row 2. 1*-Ger. 75% 



Flower not properly growing; out of the leaf, but on a fruit- 

 stalk from the bosom of the leaf, which is immersed beneath the 

 outer coat, from whence it may with ease be dissected, Woodw* 

 Stem tough, woody, branched, scored. Leaves egg-spear-shaped* 

 pointed. B/oss. yellowish green. Berries red. Mr. Stack- 

 house remarks, that the 3 outer calyx leaves are larger and rigid, 

 the 3 inner smaller ; these he considers as petals, and he found a 

 male flower fallen from the plant, which had only 3 leaves cor- 

 responding with those of the calyx. 



Knee Holly. Butchers Broom. Prickly Pettigree. Woods, 



thickets, and hedges. [Hethel Woods near Norwich. Mr* 

 Crowe. — Heath near Lowestoft. Mr. Woodward. — New Fo- 

 rest near Stony Cross.] S. March, April. 



CRO'CUS. BIoss. with 6 equal divisions : Summits 



coiled. 



C. Sheath 1 valve, rising from the root: tube of the bios- sati'va- 



som very long. — Summit in 3 deep strap-shaped 

 segments hanging out of the blossom. E. Bot. 



Var. 1 • officinalis. Leaves narrower, rolled in at the edges, 

 Flowers in autumn. 



E. hot. 3\3-Matth. 69. 7Q-MUI. Ul-Trag. 7^3-Fuchs. 

 441-J. B - » 637-Walc-Sheldr. (Saffron.J-Tourn. 184. 

 -Ger. 123. 1. 2-Dod. 2\3-Lob. obs. 6$-Ger. 151-H. ox. 

 iv. 2. l-Black<u>. 144. \-Park. par. 1(>7. 



Bloss. purplish blue ; filaments purple j summits deep orange. 

 Germen cylindrical. 



Crocus autumnalis. E> bot. Crocus officinalis sativus. Huds. 

 Common or autumnal Saffron. About Cambridge, and Saffron 

 Walden, Essex. [In a meadow near the copper mills, Derby* 



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* In Ttaly it is made into besoms, and the butchers use them to sweep 

 their blocks. Huxters place the boughs round their bacon and cheese t j 

 defend them from the mice, for they cannot make their way through the 

 prickly leaves. It will not bear the winter* of Sweden. 



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