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Cziklova, in the Banat; its introduction is very desirable. 



Crocus karduchorum, (Plate V.) Discovered in flower by Theodore Kotschy, on 

 the 27th., of September, 1859, on a mountain ridge, at an altitude of six thousand 

 feet, between Miikiis and Sherwan, in Kurdistan, south of Lake Van. 



Crocus granatcnsis somewhat resembles C nudiflorus of North Spain; but the 

 corm is much larger, and without stolon growths. It is a native of the Sierra Tegeda, 

 and the mountains of Granada, at an altitude of from four thousand to six thousand 

 five hundred feet, and flowers in September and October. 



Crocus serotinus, (Plate VIII.) from a wild source. I have been unable to 

 find in herbaria any wild specimens of this old garden plant. It is probably a 

 south Spanish species. 



Crocus lazicus, (Plate XII.) Discovered by M. Balansa in moist meadows 

 above the villages of Djimel, south east of Trebizond, at an altitude of about 

 eight thousand five hundred feet; flowering in June (or August?). Djimel can be 

 approached from Rizas, a small sea-port twenty-five or thirty miles east of Trebizond. 

 After going inland to Andon, you ascend through forests of Abies Nordmanniana, 

 and thickets of Rhododendron caucasicuni and then cross a bare alpine ridge, at a 

 height of between ten and eleven thousand feet. By the side of a zigzag path about 

 eighteen hundred feet below and to the south of this ridge, before you descend 

 to Djimel, C. lazicus was found. 



Crocus Boissieri, (Plate XX.) is only known from a single imperfect specimen 

 in M. Boissier's Herbarium, collected by the Russian Traveller Tchihatcheff, near 

 the Cave of Corycus, (modern Korghoz) in Cilicia, on the 30th. of June, 1853. 



Crocus vwntencgrinus, (Plate XXIII.) A vernal species, discovered by Herr 

 Maly on Mount Orgen in Montenegro. 



Crocus sativus, var. Haussknechtii. Collected by Haussknecht, at an altitude of 

 five thousand feet, on Delechani and Saugur, calcareous mountains between 

 Kermanchah and Hamedan, in Western Persia; and on October 18th., 1865 at 

 Kharput in Kurdistan. 



Crocus veluchcnsis, (Plate XXXII.) occurs at high elevations in Greece and 

 Turkey, Mount Parnassus, Mount Corax, at an altitude of from six thousand to 

 seven thousand feet, the summit of Tymphrestus (Velugo, Veluchi, Velukhi), in 

 /Etolia, and near the melting snow in the upper regions of the Balkans (Hsemus), 

 above the village of Kolafer in Northern Thrace; flowering about the end of May. 



Croats reticulatus, var. micrantlius, (Plate XXX b .) A native of Cilicia. 



Crocus stellaris, (Plate XXXVII.) An old garden plant, the origin of which 

 is unknown. 



Crocus Gaillardotii, (Plate XL.) A small winter-flowering species from northern 

 Palestine and Syria, Djebel Nahor, (Gebel Nahas), one hour north-west of Aleppo, 



