150 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
closed fusiform-cylindrical, about half the length of the tube, the 
throat yellow, glabrous. Stigma overtopping the stamens, deeply 
3-cleft, with the divisions narrowly wedgeshaped, channelled, truncate, 
slightly notched and faintly crenate at the apex. 
Naturalised on the site of an old garden in Barton Park, Bury St. 
Edmunds, Suffolk. In this station it has maintained its ground for 
more than half a century. 
[England.] Perennial. Early Spring. 
Corm flowering when a little larger than a marrow-pea, remarkable 
for the structure of its coats, which are almost crustaceous in texture, 
pale yellow with a brown bloom; these coats split transversely, leaving 
a ring at the base; they show no indication of the fibrous texture 
which is common in the tunics of the corms of this genus. Leaves 
appearing very early in the year, dark green with a narrow white 
line down the centre. Perianth tube extending 1 to 1} inch above 
the spathe; perianth segments 1 to 1} inch long, narrowly elliptical, 
subacute, white tinged with pale lilac, especially inside, the outer ones 
with about three dark purplish stripes, the base tinged with yellow. 
Anthers yellow, longer than the filaments. Stigma yellowish-orange, 
the segments erect. Capsule about 3} inch long or a little more. 
Seeds about the size of sago grains, with a pale red spongy testa. 
For fresh specimens of this and the next species | am indebted to Sir 
Charles Bunbury, the present owner of Barton Park. These specimens 
are much smaller in all their parts than the “ Scotch Crocus” (which 
is the usual garden form of C. biflorus), and have the closed perianth 
more cylindrical, more tinged with lilac, and with the lines of a 
clearer purple. In other respects the Barton Park plant is similar to 
the garden form. 
Scotch Crocus. 
SPECIES IL—CROCUS AUREUS. Silih. 
Pirate MCCCCXCVIII. 
Reich, Te. Fl, Germ. et Helv. Vol. IX. Tab, CCCLVII. Fig. 792. 
' Corm not stoloniferous, clothed with rather thick somewhat leathery 
coats, not splitting transversely, but marked with and ultimately split- 
ting at the base into broad longitudinal flattened fibres. Leaves pro- 
duced in early spring with the flowers, very narrowly linear, with 
parallel sides and strongly revolute margins. Spathe 1-valved, ob- 
liquely acute, scarious. Flowers 1 to 4, usually 2 or 3, appearing in 
spring. Perianth segments when closed oblanceolate-fusiform, not 
half the length of the tube, the throat yellow, glabrous. Stamens 
about half the length of the perianth segments, Stigma much shorter 
