A MONOGRAPH OF 



THE GENUS CROCUS 



BY 



GEORGE MAW, F.L.S., F.S.A., F.G.S., 



Member of the Royal Agricultural College; 



Honorary Member of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club: 



Member of the Botanical Society of France; 



Member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh ; 



&c . &c. <fec. 



WITH AN APPENDIX 



ON THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORDS CROCUS AND SAFFRON 



BY C. C. LACAITA, M.A., M.P., F.L.S. 



LWI»4HT 



LONDON: 



DULAL T AND CO., SOHO SQUARE. 



1886. 



