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Pistil about three-quarters of an inch (o.oig metre) in height from the throat, somewhat taller than 

 the stamens; the Style dividing at the level of the middle of the anthers, and produced into sub- 

 entire scarlet stigmata. 



Scape about an inch (0.025 metre) high at the flowering-time, produced to a height of an inch and a 

 half (0.038 metre) at the maturity of the capsule. 



Capsule about five-eighths of an inch (0.016 metre) high, and one-third of an inch (0.0084 metre) broad. 



Seed oval, three-twentieths of an inch (0.0038 metre) high, and one-tenth of an inch (0.0025 metre) 



broad, buff, glabrous; the raphe, chalaza, and caruncle of a paler colour than the body of the seed. 



Crocus reticulatus has a wide range in longitude; occurring as far west as 

 Monfalcone, near Trieste, longitude 13° 30' east, and as far east as the northern 

 slopes of the Caucasus, longitude 42° 30' east. In latitude it ranges from Bulgaria, 

 43° north, to about 50^° north, in Southern Russia. 



Parlatore refers to its supposed occurrence near Parma, about 3 west of its 

 general area. Cosson's Herbarium contains a specimen labelled "Siberia,'''' obviously 

 an error, being probably intended for Servia. Crocus micrantluts, Boissier, which I 

 take to be a small variety of C. reticulatus, occurs in Cilicia, 8° south of the southern 

 limit of the area in which the type form occurs. The type ranges through 29 

 degrees of longitude, and 7^ degrees of latitude, and has been found at altitudes 

 of from one thousand to fourteen hundred feet at Monfalcone, the Lippizza Forest, 

 Monte Spaccato, Opschina, and other places on the Carso, a limestone plateau 

 above Trieste; also in Istria, at Pola, Friule, and near Fiume. It has also been 

 recorded from the neighbouring island of Veglia, and from The Herzegovina. 



In Hungary and the Banat it occurs at Tenzelitze, near Buda-Pest, at Versitz 

 (Versecz), at Csiklova and Mount Simeon (Szimion). In oak woods near Monte 

 Varaschin (April 27th), Magnum Varadinum, Limestone Hills Majdan, Aparti, County 

 of Behar, and Carlsdorf (Karlsdorf). 



In Northern Servia, near Topeider and Rahovica, and in Wallachia near 

 Bucharest. 



It occurs also in Bulgaria, Moldavia, Macedonia, and the Dobrudscha. Through- 

 out Southern Russia, as far north as latitude 50 , it is abundant and widely distributed, 

 especially in the Ukraine, Podolia and the provinces Kiev, Kherson and Poltova, as 

 at Yampol (Jampol) on the river Dniester, Nestouta near Balta, Kanjew, and between 

 Belvia, Zerkov and Kiev; near Uman, at Olivopol on the river Bug, near Odessa; 

 at Elizabethgrad, one hundred and eighty miles north by west of Kherson; near 

 Lubuy, Poltova, near Khoral (Khorol, Choral) in the province of Poltova; at Serikow 

 (Serikoie), at Ekaterinoslav on the Dnieper, at Kharkow (Kharkov, Charkow) in 

 the Ukraine, and in the neighbourhood of the lower part of the Don. 



