ORD. XLVI. Liliaceae. 763 
CROCUS SATIVUS. SAFFRON CROCUS. 
SYNONYMA. Crocus. Pharm. Lond. Gerard. Emac. p. 151. 
Rait Hist. p.1176, Synop. p. 374, Crocus verus sativus autum- 
nalis. Park, Parad. p.167. Crocus sativus. Bauh. Pin. p. 65. 
Hudson. Flor. Ang. p. 13. Withering Bot. Arr. p. 37. Rethan. 
Flor. Cant. p. 15. Miller’s Figures, t.111. Conf. Douglas. 
Phil. Trans. vol. 32. p. 441. Du Hamel, and Fougeroux De 
Bondaroy. Mem de L’Acad. des Seien. de Paris,.1728. p. 100.. 
and p. 92. f. 1. 2. 
Class Triandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin..Gen. Plant. 55, 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cor. 6-partita, equalis. Stigmata convoluta, 
Sp. Ch. C. spatha univalvi radicali, corollz tubo longissimo. 
# C, autumnalis, foliis angustioribus margine revolutis. Miller. Illus, 
#C, vernalis, foliis latiortbus margine patulo. Jacquin. Aust. y, 5.. 
Curt. Mag. 45. 
THE root is bulbous, perennial: the flower appears after the: 
leaves, rising very little above the ground upon a slender succulent 
tube: the leaves rise higher than the flower, are linear, simple, 
radical, of a.rich green colour, with a white line running in the 
centre, and all at the base inclosed along with the tube of the 
flower in a membranous sheath: the flower is large, of a bluish 
purple,. or lilac colour: the corolla consists of six petals, which: 
are nearly elliptical, equal, and turned inwards at the edges: the’ 
filaments are three, short, tapering, and support long erect yellow 
anthers: the germen is roundish, from which issues a slender 
style, terminated by three long convoluted stigmata, of a deep 
yellow colour: the capsule is roundish, three-lobed, three-celled,. 
