, 7 2 THE GENUS CROCUS. 



A small form of C. sativits, which is, I think, identical with Pallasii occurs in 

 the neighbourhood of Canea, in Crete; I also have it in cultivation from the summit 

 of the Bithynian Olympus, and from the neighbourhood of Patras, in the Morea. 

 It is a common plant in Dalmatia and has been recorded from Tadram, Ragusa, 

 rocky hills about Zara, Dernis, Zagarie, Melicozi, Sebenico, Boraja, Salona, and 

 Spalatro; and from the islands of Bua, Solta, Brazza, and Melda. 



It extends across European Turkey, and has been recorded from the Rhodope 

 or Despoto Dagh Mountains, near Philippopolis, Roumelia, and between Csesnavoda 

 and Kustendji, in Bulgaria. The Crimea appears to be its most north-eastern limit, 

 where it occurs on the Steppes near Simpheropol (Archmenchat). 



Omitting the habitats in which the economic Saffron Crocus has been naturalized, 

 the indigenous forms range through ten degrees of latitude, from Crete, latitude 

 35 north, to the Crimea, latitude 45° north; and through 34" of longitude, from 

 Monte di Fiori, in Italy, longitude 13° 30' east, the habitat of var. Orsinii, to lon- 

 gitude 48 east, the habitat in western Persia of var. Haussknechtii. 



REFERENCES TO PLATE XXIX.— C. Sativus. 



Fig. 1. Flowering-state, autumnal, actual size, of var. Orsinii, from a specimen in the Naples Herbarium, 

 communicated by Tenore, and labelled "Crocus sativus sauvage," Monte de Fiori, Ascoli. (Note: the 

 drooping stigma represents that of the cultivated C. sativus.) 



Fig. 2. Inner surface of segments of C. sativus, actual size. 



Fig. 3. C. sativus with matured leaves, April 15th, actual size. 



Fig. 4. Diagrammatic dissections of scape, ovary, and spathes, actual size: a, C. sativus; b, var. Orsinii. 



Fig. 5. Stamens and Pistil of Crocus sativus, magnified two-fold. 



Fig. 6. Stamens and Pistil of var. Orsinii, magnified two-fold. 



Fig. 7. Pollen Grain, magnified one hundred and fifty-fold. 



Fig. 8. Section of leaf, magnified six-fold. 



Fig. 9. Conn tunic, magnified two-fold. 



REFERENCES TO PLATE XXIX6.— Var. Cartwrightianus. 



Fig. 1. Flowering-state, January 3rd, actual size. 



Figs. 2, 3, & 4. Flowers and segments, actual size. 



Fig. 5. With matured leaves, June 26th, actual size. 



Fig. 6. Diagrammatic dissection of scape, ovary, and spathes, actual size. 



Fig. 7. Stigma, magnified four-fold. 



Fig. 8. Stamens and Pistil, magnified two-fold. 



Fig. 9. Pollen Grain, magnified one hundred and fifty-fold. 



Fig. 10. Section of leaf, magnified six-fold. 



Fig. 11. Seed, magnified six-fold. 



Fig. 12. Corm tunics, magnified two-fold: d, cap; e, main tunic;/, basal tunic. 



REFERENCES TO PLATE XXIXc— Var. Elwesii. 



Fig. 1. Flowering-state, October 13th, actual size. 



Fig. 2. With matured leaves and capsule, July 14th. actual size. 



