33. CROCUS SIEBERI. 



Section: Nudiflori; reticulati (Herbert): Holostigma; vernal (Baker). 



Crocus Sieberi, Gay in Feruss. Bull. Sc. Nat. vol. xxv, p. 320 (220); Vis. Flora Dalmat. vol. ii, p. 29; 

 Tchihatcheff, Asie Min., part iii, Bot., vol. ii, p. 523; J. D. Hooker in Bot. Mag. 1873, tab. 6036; 

 Baker, Rev. Sp. Crocus in Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 542; List Crocus in Journ. R. Hort. Soc. Lond.,' 

 new ser., vol. iv, 1877; and Syst. Iridac. in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., vol. xvi, p. 81 ; G. Maw, Synops. 

 Genus Crocus in Gard. Chron., new ser., vol. xvi, p. 462; in The Garden, vol. xxi, No. 532, p. 68; 

 and Hist. Crocus in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., vol. xix, p. 373; Boiss., Fl. Orient., vol. v, part i, p. 

 102. 



Crocus Sieberi, var. alliens, Boiss. and Orphan, in Boiss. Diag. PI. Nov. Orient., Ser. 2, iv, p. 94. 



C. Sicberianus, Herbert in Bot. Mag. sub. tab. 3866. 



C. nivalis, Bory and Chaub. Fxped. Moree, vol. ii, p. 21, tab. 2, fig. 1; Herbert in Bot. Reg. 1847, vo '- 

 xxxiii, tab. 4, fig. 2; Hist. Crocus, sp. 28, p. 28, from Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond., vol. ii, p. 274; and 

 drawing Lindl. Libr. R. Hort. Soc. Lond.; Klatt, Revis. Irid. in Linnrea, vol. xxxiv, p. 682 and 720; 

 Floral Mag. 1874, plate iii, fig. 2. 



C. sublimis, Herbert in Bot. Reg. 1845, vol. xxxi, Misc. p. 81, No. 73. 



C. Sibthorpianus, Herbert in Bot. Reg. 1845, vol. xxxi, Misc. p. 28. 



C. thcssalus, (not C. thessalus, Janka, Exsic Kolafer, Thrace, which is C. veluchensis, Herbert), Boiss. 

 Diag., Ser. i, xiii, p. 17. 



Crocus vermis (not C. vermis, Allione), Smith, Prodr. i, p. 34, ex parte non L. 



Var. versicolor (not C. versicolor, Gawl), Boiss. and Heldr., Boiss. Fl. Orient., vol. v, part i, p. 103; G. Maw, 



Synops. Genus Crocus in Gard. Chron., new ser., vol. xvi, p. 462; in The Garden, vol. xxi, No. 



532, p. 68. 



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Cormus f — 1 poll. (0.017—0.025 metr.) latus, & — f poll. (0.013— 0.017 metr.) altus. Tunica reticulati- 

 onibus tenuibus rhombeis confecta. Tunica basalis magna fibris radiatis hand ramosis confecta. 

 Vagina; quam spatha breviores. Folia ad florationem floribus requantia glabra, A poll. (0.0063 metr.) 

 lata; canaliculi aperti ecostati. Spatha diphylla. Perianthium: faux haud barbata, aurantiaca- se°-- 

 menta ij— if poll. (0.038—0.044 metr.) longa, circiter 1 poll. (0.013 metr.) lata, forma coloreque 

 valde variabilia. Antherce aurantiacoe sursum acuminata;, filamentis aurantiacis bis asquantes. Stylus 

 fissus sub apices antherarum ; stigmata lata subintegra aurantiaco-coccinea, antheris subcequantia. 

 Semina glabra polita ferme spha;rica rubra. 



Var. versicolor, segmenta alba vel purpurea, striis, et maculis penniformibus varie ornata, basi semper 

 aurea. 



Corm about two-thirds of an inch (0.017 metre), broad and high. Tunic of finely reticulated fibre, with 



