THE GENUS CROCUS. 



IZ + 



drawings Lindl Libr. R. Hort. Soc. Lond.; Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 357 J Gren. and Godr. Fl. France 

 vof H d 2V, ■ Par at Fl. Ital. iii, sp. 820, p. 22:; Ardoino, Fl. Alp. Mark., p. 36+; Moggndge 

 cttrib. P Fl. intone, Plate xl ; Baker.V Sp' Crocus in Card Chro, 1 .873. P- 43+i ^ °| Crocuses 

 in Tourn R Hort. Soc. Lond., new ser., vol. iv, 1877. Syst. Indac. in Journ. Linn, hoc, Bot., 

 vol xv i p 81; G. Maw, Synops. Genus Crocus in Card. Chron. new series, vol. xvi, p. 303; m 

 The Garden vol. xxi, No. 53*, P- &7 i and Hist. Crocus in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot, vol. x,x, p. 37 *- 



C. fragrant, Haworth, in Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. vol. i, p. 136. 



C. meridionalis, Hort and Osborne's Cat. p. 457. 



C. vermis, not C. vermis of Allioni, Rob. Cat. Toul. p. 49. 



? C. creslensis, Eugene, in Bull. Bot. Soc. Fr. xv, p. 190. 



? C. Reinwardtii, Rchb. Ic. Crit. tab. 938, fig. 1261. 



Cormus pyriformis, | poll. (0.019 metr.) latus; tunica fibris parallels composita. Vaginae quam spatha 

 Teviores Foia glabra fauce ad florationem substantia i poll. (0.0032 metr.) lata, matura 8-9 

 poll (o 200-0.225 metr.) longa, canaliculis lateralibus bi-vel tn-costat.s Spatha monophylla. Pen- 

 an hium faux glabra; segmenta circiter i| poll. (0.038 metr.) longa, vel purpurea vel alba concolom, 

 ™ vel signis purpuras extus ornata;' exteriora interioribus subsimiha. Anthers flavs, filamenta 

 alba parum glanduL? duplicates. Stylus prope summas antheras fissus. St.gmata mtegra auran- 

 tiaca haud divergentia. Semina rubra pohta 



Com shortly pyriform, nearly three-quarters of an inch (0.0.9 metre) wide, and fully half an inch (0.013 

 metre) hf4 Tunic nbro-membranous, the fibres parallel, slightly reticulated upwards; the Cap 

 Shortly produced upwards into sharply-pointed parcels of fibre. Basal Tunic of radiating fibres on 

 a membranous base. . 



Sheathine Leaves from four to five, from half an inch (0.0.3 metre) to three and a half inches 

 088 metre) in length, falling short of the proper spathe, and containing several scapes. 



Proter Leaves from four to five appearing with the flowers, and produced at the maturity of the capsule 

 P L a entth of eight or nine inches (0.200-0.225 metre), one-sixth of an inch (0.0042 metre) broad, 

 g°abrous1the keel concave, about one-third the width of the blade; lateral channels wide and open, 

 containing two prominent ridges. 



Basal Sfiathe two and a half inches (0.063 metre) in length. Proper Spathe monophyllous, two an a 

 half inchel (0.063 metre) in length, exceeding the sheathing leaves, and reaching nearly to the 



throat. 



Perianth- Tube from four and a half to five inches (0...3 metre) in length from the ° va ^ ^ the thnat 

 Throat unbearded, white, or slightly yellowish, but never orange Segments ^lanceolate an inch and * 

 half 0038 metre) to an inch and three-quarters (0.044 metre) long, and from a third of an inch 

 fo 0084 metre) to half an inch (0.013 metre) broad, varying in colour from white to purple, the 

 inter turface of all the segments either unfathered, or similarly feathered with purple, or bear.ng 

 three purple lines. _ 



Stamens three-quarters of an inch (0.0.9 metre) high; the Anthers -orange , hal ^ an inch (°-°'3 metre) in 

 length!and twice the length of the white Filament. Pollen Grain ^ of an inch (0.00008 metre) 

 in diameter, slightly papillose, orange. 



Pistil barely an inch (0.025 metre) high, equalling or exceeding the anthers; the Style d.vid.ng at about 

 the le/ef of the middle of the anthers, and produced into erect, entire, subulate, orange-scarlet 

 stigmata. . 



Scape from an inch and a half (0.038 metre) to two inches (0.050 metre) in height at the flower.ng-t.me, 

 produced to a height of three inches (0.075 metre) at the maturity of the capsule. 



Capsule about an inch (0.025 metre) long, and a third of an inch (0.0084 metre) broad, bright green 

 veined with purple. . 



Seed nearly spherical, one sixth of an inch (0.0042 metre) high, and one-eighth of an inch J 0.003 2 

 metre) broad, glabrous, of a rich red-brown colour; the chalaza, raphe, and prominent caruncle of 

 the same colour as the body of the seed. 



