THE GENUS CROCUS. 



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C. corsicus. In the Miscellany of the same volume, p. 81 to 84, are descriptions 

 of, 126, C. pulchellus; 127, C. nubigena; 128, C. lagenaflorus, var. hamicus; 129, C. 

 lagenaflorus, var. Landerianus; 130, C. nivigena, a supposed var. of C. vermis from 

 the Steppes north of Odessa; 131, C. Cartwrightianus ; and in the Crocorum Synopsis, 

 addenda et corrigenda at p. 83, C chrysanthus, C. speciosus, C. Sibthorpianus (= 

 C. aeriusj, C. lagenajlorus /ulcus (= C. aureus); C. reticulata, var. albicans, C. gar- 

 garicus, C. serotinus, C sativus, C. vcruus alpinus, and C. lusitanicus of Brotero Fl. 

 Lus. (probably C. carpetanusj are described. 



In the Botanical Register of 1844, Vol. XXX, is a further article on the 

 autumnal Croci; Plate 3, containing figures of C. pulchellus, C. longijlorus and var. 

 melitcnsis, C. Thomasianus, C. Pallasianus, and C. Cartwrightianus. 



In the Botanical Register of 1845, Vol. XXXI, Miscellany, p. 1-8, are descriptions 

 of C. damascenus, C. intromissus (? C. Gaillardotii), C. vallicola, C. Mazziaricus, C. 

 ionicus (C. Boryi, Gay), C. Cartwrightianus, C. Sibthorpianus (C. aerius), C. Tourne- 

 fortianus, var. veneris (C. veneris), and var. parvulus. At p. 10, addenda: C. Clusianus, 

 C. carpctanus. In the Miscellany, p. 31, is a note on C. vallicola, and on seedling 

 Croci. In the Miscellany, p. 80, Crocorum synopsis, addenda, C. dalmaticus, C. vclu- 

 chensis, C. sublimis (C. Siebcri, Gay), C. can eel la lus var. margaritaceus, and var. Maz- 

 ziaricus, C. ionicus (C. Boryi), C. vallicola, C. hadriaticus and vars. chrysobelonicus and 

 Saundersianus, and C. Visianicus are described. 



In the Botanical Register of 1847, Vol. XXXIII, plates 4 and 16, eleven species 

 are figured and described, viz: C. chrysanthus, C. nivalis (C. Siebcri, Gay), C. ve- 

 luchcnsis, C. Salzmannianus, C. byzantinus, C. gargaricus, C. rcticulatus, C. vallicola, C. 

 cancel lat us, C. hadriaticus, and C. Bo ry an us. 



These papers, and some descriptions of species in the Botanical Magazine, 

 as well as the series of drawings preserved in the Lindley Library of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society of London, represent the materials Herbert had been gradually 

 accumulating up to the time of his death. Notwithstanding the difficulties of 

 transport at the time, he had imported and cultivated at Spofforth the greater 

 number of the species he described; indeed he had introduced to cultivation fully 

 as many new species as the whole of those that up to the time had been in 



English gardens. 



Herbert's most important work, A History of the Species of Crocus, published in 

 Vol. 2, p. 249-293 of the Journal of the Horticultural Society of London, a summary 

 of all 'his previous writings on the genus, was completed only a day or two before 

 his death, and left in the hands of Dr. Lindley for publication. The following 

 note appears on the first leaf of his M.S., " Crocorum Synopsis nearly prepared for 

 the Press, and to be printed, if I die before it is sent to press, with or without 

 plates from my drawings as may be found expedient. Consult Dr. Lindley." 



