Pirate XL. 
CROCUS versicotor, Gawl. 
Natural Order IrIpAcEz. 
Gen. Cuar.—Perianth regular, campanulate, with a long tube. 
Stamens 3.- Style filiform, springing nearly from the bulb. Stigma 
3-lobed, generally more or less cut. 
Serc. Cuar.—Flower springing from a spathe of two scarious 
sheathing scales, of which the outer one is obtuse and larger, the inner 
narrow and acute. Perianth smooth at the throat. Anthers linear, 
sagittate, rather longer than the smooth filaments. Stigmas entire or 
slightly cut. Leaves appearing with the flowers. Bulb covered with 
fibrous tunics (“‘ Fibres of coating nearly parallel,’ Woods, Tour. FI. 
p- 857). Gren. et Grodr. Fl. de Fr. iii. 257. 
~ Crocus versicolor, Gawl. Bot. Mag. 1110; Gren. et Godr. Fl, de Fr. 
iii. 257; Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 357. 
Hasitat.— Rocky ground close to the sea on Cap Mise abundant 
also, at an elevation of from 3000 to 4000 feet, on most of the moun- 
tains. February. 
Remarxs.—The colour and even in some measure the growth of this 
plant is given to vary, the flowers assuming yellowish or purple tints, 
or appearing of a pure white, while sometimes two flowers spring from 
one bulb. Crocus versicolor, Gawl., and C. medius, Balb., figured in 
Part I., are the only representatives of the genus which have as yet 
been found in the immediate neighbourhood of Mentone. There are 
specimens of C. versicolor in the herbarium at Kew from Dalmatia and 
Tiflis, south of the Caucasus; and Grenier and Godron cite it from 
Draguignan, Grasse, Frejus, Toulon, and Aix. 
HxpLanation or Prats XL.—Fig. 1, stigma and part of style. 
Fig. 2, fibrous coating of the bulb. 
