COLCHICUM. 
produce a ragged effect, not atoned for by their palest feeblest whity- 
pink tone. 
C. cilicicum, in reality, is a variety of C. byzantinum, but with 
flowers even larger and more splendid. 
C. crocifolium usually appears, in such catalogues as offer it, as 
C. « crociflorum,”’ a name absurdly ill-fitting. And the figure repre- 
senting it in the Bot. Mag. merely paints C. autumnale. C. crocifolium 
is a spring-blooming species, producing from the one corm a generous 
quantity of quite small and narrow-rayed lilac-pink blossoms simul- 
taneously with the hairy-velvety leaves, extremely narrow, curving and 
spreading outwards. (South Persia, &c.) 
C. Decaisnei, from Anti-Libanus and Baalbek, is an improved 
C. autumnale, with cups of twice the size, and paler in colour. 
C. Haussknechtii is a beautiful autumn Crocus, found on the high 
limestones and schists of Elwend, with very long-rayed large pink 
flowers, opening widely out in a star. 
C. hydrophilum loves damper"places in Cilicia, and is profuse with its 
dainty pointed-lobed cups, all springing compactly in spring from the 
corm, with the foliage just appearing at the base. 
C. Kochii has spreading grooved narrow-pointed leaves about 
3 inches long, and rather narrow-rayed flowers in autumn of white or 
palest pink. (From Hymettus, &c.) 
C. laetum, a synonym of C. candidum, q.v. 
C. latifolium is the superb plant called C. Sibthorbic by Baker, and 
C. Bivonae (not of Gusson ; g.v.). It has very large lilac blossoms, with 
broad, incurving segments, and all beautifully chequered ; these are 
followed in spring by broad flattish oval or oblong foliage. It is found 
in the mountains of Greece, and there is a one-flowered variety, C. l. 
euboeum. 
C. libanoticum blooms in spring by the melting snows of Lebanon. 
The anthers are yellow, and the leaves much more broad and short 
than even in C. montanum, which otherwise it exactly follows. 
C. lingulatum may be recognised in spring by its wavy broad tongue- 
shaped foliage, tapering to the base ; the lilac flowers are three or four, 
narrow in the ray, appearing in autumn among the pines on Parnes. 
C. luteum flowers in spring, when its three or four very narrow blunt 
leaves also appear. And its blossoms break far awayfrom the traditions 
of all the rest in being small stars of gold about an inch and a half 
across, on a three-inch tube. They come by ones or twos from the 
corm, with styles protruding far out, and long spidery yellow anthers. 
(Alps of Afghanistan and Turkestan.) 
C. montanum is a synonym, not of C. Bertolonii which blooms in 
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