THE GENUS CROCUS. 



production of Saffron by the cultivation of a monstrous form of Crocus sativus, 

 represented on Plate D, Fig. i, in which the segments (d.d.d.) are developed as 

 stigmata. M. Chappellier's experiments are described in a paper by M. Duchatre, 

 in Lc Journal dc la Soctite Ccntralc a" Horticulture de France, 3rd. Serie, I, p. 171- 

 180, 1879. 



