PLATE XX. 
the fruit. There is no other species of Crocus yet discovered near 
Mentone with which the present one can be confused ; indeed, the only 
other representative of the genus found in the immediate neighbourhood 
is the beautiful C. versicolor, which flowers with its leaves in the spring. 
Crocus medius flowers in October, and specimens may still be procured 
in the early part of November. The capsule and leaves were gathered 
for me in April. 
