36. CROCUS SUSIANUS. 



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



Crocus susianus, (not C. susianus, Tchihatcheff, Asie Min.) Ker in Bot. Mag. 1803, tab. 652; and Irid. 

 Gen. p 78; Red., Lil., vol. v, tab. 293; Hayne, Arzneigewachse, vi, tab. 28; Sabine in Trans. 

 Hort. Soc Lond., vol. vn, p. 42+ ; Gay, three drawings Bibl. J. D. Hooker; Nees Gen. PL, 3 x- 

 d,u '-n, Cnt , tab - 928, fig. 1249; and Ic. Fl. Germ. vol. ix, p. 9, tab. ccclviii, fig. 704; Loud' 

 Bulb. Plants, tab. 23, fig. 5 ; Klatt, Revis. Irid. in Linnaea xxxiv, p. 678, and 719; Baker, Rev. Sp. 

 Crocus in Gard Chron. 1873, p. 291; List Crocus in Journ. R. Hort. Soc, new ser., 1877; and 

 byst. Indac. in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., vol. xvi, p. 80; G. Maw, Synops. Genus Crocus, in Gard 

 Chron. new ser., vol. xvi, p. 528; in The Garden, vol. xxi, num. 532, p. 68; and Hist. Crocus in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., vol. xix, p. 373; Boiss., Fl. Orient, vol. v, part 1, p. 103. 



C. revolutus, Haworth in Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond., vol. 1, p. 136. 



C. reticulatus, Var. a., in part, M. Bieb., Cent. PI. Ross., tab. 1. 



C. reticulatus, Vars. reflexus, and rectilimbus, Herbert in Bot. Mag. 1841, sub. tabs. 3865 and 3866. 



C. reticulatus, var. 1, auri/extus, and sub-vars. reflexus, and rectilimbus, Herbert, Hist. Sp. Crocus sp "2 

 p. 33; from Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond., vol. ii, p. 279; and drawing of var. reflexus in Lindl. Libr r' 

 Hort. Soc Lond. 



C. reticulatus, var. aureus, (not C. aureus, Sibth. and Smith), Traut. in Bull. Phvs-Mathem Acad St 



Petersburg, vol. xvii, p. 329; Lindermann Fl. Kherson. 

 C. Ragnerianus, K. Koch in Linnasa, vol. xxi, p. 634. 

 Var. fulvus. C. fulvus, Pallas Herb. 



C.teticulatus, sub-var. 3, unmaculatus, Herbert, Hist. Sp. Crocus sp. 32, p. 33 ; from journ. Hort Soc 



Lond., vol. 11, p. 279; and in Bot. Mag. 1841, sub. tabs. 3865 and 3866. 

 C. susianus, var 1 immaculatus; Baker, List Crocus in Tourn. R. Hort. Soc. Lond., new ser., vol. iv 1877- 



and Syst. Indac in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., vol. xvi, p. 80. 



Cormus circiter f poll. (0.019 metr.) latus et altus. Tunicas fibri validi reticulati, reticulationibus ma^nis 

 apices acuti ngidi producti. Tunica basalis, discus cartilagineus validus, cuspidibus rimdis radian- 

 tibus cinctus. Vagina; quam spatha breviores. Folia floribus aaquantia, T V poll. (00016 metr) 

 lata, carinas et laminae marginibus ciliatis. Spatha diphylla. Perianthium: faux glabra- se-menta 

 circiter i ? poll. (0.038 metr.) longa, \ poll. (0.013 metr.) lata, reflexa, aurantiaca, segmen'ta e.xteriora 

 extus vane strns penmformibus brunneis ornata, rarius concolora aurantiaca, vel undique brunnea 

 surtusa. Antherae aurantiaca;, filamentis aurantiacis bis gequantes. Stylus ad basin antherarum fissus- 

 stigmata longa Integra aurantiaco-coccinea, antheras multo superantia. Semina rubra matura brunnea' 



