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26. Verrucaria b-septakda, Nyl. — Thallus whitisli, macular ; 

 apothecia with the pyreniura entirely black, above denudated, convex ; 

 spores 8d,t3, colourless, fusiform, 5 -septate, small ; paraphyses slender, 

 not crowded. Corticole. 



ON A NEW XIPHION AND CROCUS FROM THE CILICIAN 



TAURUS. 

 By J. O. Bakee, F.L.S. 



Mrs. Danfoed, of Broomhall Bank, Banchory, Aberdeenshire, who 

 accompanied her husband in the spring of the present year upon an 

 ornithological expedition to the Cilician Taurus, took the opportunity 

 of making a collection of the spring flowers of the mountains, and 

 upon her return to England a few weeks ago gave me an opportunity 

 of looking through it. All the collections from the district which I 

 have seen before, such asKotschy's and Balansa's, were made at a later 

 period of the year. Mrs. Danford's collection includes several plants 

 of great interest, especially amongst the smaller bulbs. Amongst 

 these, of plants already described, I may mention FritiUaria aurea, a fine 

 species with broad leaves and bright yellow flowers with small, nearly 

 black tesselations, discovered long ago by Kotschy and recently brought 

 into cultivation in this country (see "Gardeners' Chronicle," 1876, 

 p. 720), but of which, so far as I am aware, no wild specimens have 

 previously reached England ; amongst the Hyacinths Bellevallia 

 lineata and hispida and Muscari lingulatum^ the latter only known 

 from poor specimens of Aucher-Eloy's, not specially localised; 

 OrnitJiogalum lanceolatum, Ixiolirion inotitanum, a variety of Stern- 

 hergia lutea ; Croctis Fkischen, which will very likely prove to be the 

 imperfectly-described C. candidus of Dr. Clarke's "Travels,'' from the 

 Troad ; three other species of Crocus, which, so far as I can judge 

 without bulbs, are probably vitellinus, chrysanthus, and bijioms, and a 

 fifth tiny new species, allied to C. Sieheri, which I will describe 

 presently. 



By far the most interesting plant in the collection is a new bulbous 

 Iris, very like persica in its general habit, with the same solitary 

 flower with a long tube nearly stemless in the centre of the basal 

 rosette of leaves, but the perianth bright orange-yellow instead of 

 lilac, with the three inner segments entirely suppressed, and the three 

 outer with a faint beard down the claw. These last two characters 

 may be safely held to mark it as constituting a new section of the 

 genus Xiphion, if not a new genus. The following is a technical 

 description of the plant : — 



Genus Xiphion (Tournef.), Miller. 



Subgenus Micropogon. — Perianthii segmenta interiora prorsus 

 obsoleta ; interiora unguibus obscure barbatis. 



X. Danfordi^, Baker. — Bulbus ovoideus, 6-8 lin. longus, 3-4 lin. 

 crassus, tunicis brunncis membrauaceis, fibris radicalibus' carnosis, 



