NARCISSUS 483 



CROCUS, Linn. Gen. n. 53 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 183^ 



*C. vernus, All, Fl. Ped. 1. c. 84 (1785). Spring Crocus. 



C. sativus, var. vernus, Linn. Sp. PI. 36 (1753). 



Comp. Cyb. Br. 579. Syme, E. B. ix. 153, t. 1499. Nyman, 708. 



Denizen. Pratal. Meadows. Very local. P. March-April. 



First record. Inkpen, Miss Beales, about 1894. 



4. Kennet. Very abundant in a pasture, which is not near houses, 

 in the parish of Inkpen. The locality is a sloping pasture, a 

 part of which has been excavated for clay for the adjoining 

 pottery, but the Crocus is more abundant on the untouched 

 portion of the field. It occurs in great quantity, spi-eading even 

 into the hedgerows, and is also found sparingly in some adjoining 

 fields. From inquiries made, I find it has been known to 

 grow here for nearly a century, but there appears no doubt that 

 it has extended itself during the last twenty years. 



The Crocus here has a wide range of colouriiig, varying from the darkest 

 violet-pnriile to white, but there is also a form, not alluded to in our British 

 text-books, in which the inner perianth segments are beautifuUj^ veined with 

 darker lines, the dark primary veins and a large number of small secondary 

 ones crossing one another obliquely from the margin. This feathered form 

 is figured in Maw s Monograph of the Genus Crocus. Dr. Boswell Syme, in 

 E. B. ix. 153, describes the perianth-segments as being darker towards the 

 base, but all that I have seen are darker at the apex. 



C. vernus is recorded for the counties of Oxford, Surrey, and Hants, 

 but in all cases as an introduced plant. 



[Gladiolus illtricus, Koch, Syn, Fl. Germ. ed. 2, 806 (1845). Syme, E. B. 

 ix. 141, t. 1493. 



Occurs somewhat plentifully in a few localities in the New Forest, growing 

 amid Bracken.] 



LEUCOJACEAE, Batsch, Gen. PI. Jen. x. 30 (1786). 

 AMAKYLLIDACEAE, Lindl. Nat. Syst. ed. 2, 328 (1836). 



NARCISSUS, Linn. Gen. n. 364 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 185. 

 JH. Pseudo-narcissus, Linn. Sp. PI. 289 (1753). Daffodil. 



Pseudonarcissus Anglicus, Gerard, 115. 

 Top. Bot. 397. Syme, E. B.ix. 157, t. 1501. Nyman, 709. Fl. Oxf. 300. 

 Native. Sylvestral. Woods, coppices, &c. Local, but often plentiful 



over a limited area. P. February- April. 

 First record. N. pseudonarcissus, Mr. Bicheno, Mavor's Agr, Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Lower Inlands and Long close, Appleton, Barrett in Baxt. 



Phaen. Bot. 73. 



2. Ock. Blewbury, in orchards, Lousley. Hinksey, Dtjer [?iV. major']. 



Marcham, Walker. Bagley Wood. Tubney Wood. Besilsleigh. 



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