210 THE GENUS CROCUS. 



Perianth- Tube nearly three inches (0.075 metre) in length from the ovary to the throat. Throal un- 

 bearded. Segments about an inch and a half (0.038 metre) in length, and barely half an inch (0.013 

 metre) wide, rich, unstriped orange. 



Stamens three-quarters of an inch (0.019 metre) high, exceeding or equalling the pistil; the Anthers 

 lemon-coloured, tapering upwards, a little longer than the dark orange Filament. Pollen Grains ^ 

 of an inch (0.00006 metre) in diameter, glabrous, yellow. 



Pistil from half an inch (0.013 metre) to three-quarters of an inch (0.019 metre) high from the throat, 

 falling short of, or equalling the stamens; the Style dividing at the level of the middle of the anthers, 

 and produced into nearly entire, orange stigmata. 



Scape at the flowering-time about an inch and a half (0.038 metre) high, and produced to a height of 

 from two to three inches (0.050—0.075 metre) at the maturity of the capsule. 



Capsule exceptionally short, from three-eighths of an inch (0.010 metre) to half an inch (0.013 metre) 

 high, and from a quarter of an inch (0.0063 metre) to three-eighths of an inch (0.0 10 metre) broad. 



Seed nearly spherical, an eighth of an inch (0.0032 metre) in diameter, orange. 



Croats oargariats is a native of western Bithynia and the Troad, extending 

 from longitude 26° 20' to 29° o' east, and from latitude 39 20' to 40 20' north. 

 Probably it has a somewhat wider range, though I have met with no records of its 

 occurrence in the centre of Asia Minor. Herbert, on the authority of Dr. Clarke 

 the traveller, records its occurrence on Mount Gargarus in the Troad, where it 

 was also gathered by the late Mr. J. Lander, British Vice-Consul at the Dardanelles; 

 and in June, 1833, by Montbret, near the snow. I gathered it abundantly at the 

 end of April, 1877, on the Bithynian Olympus above Broussa at elevations of from 

 three thousand to four thousand feet. Herbert states that the greater part of Clarke's 

 specimens were of a pale citron-colour, and those received through Mr. Lander, 

 deep golden yellow. Herbert flowered and seeded it at Spofforth. It flowers freely 

 with me at Benthall in the early spring, both in the open air and under the pro- 

 tection of a cold frame. It also produces seed. The form from Mount Olympus 

 is of a deep golden yellow. 



Clarke, in his Travels, confounds it with C. annus, to which it is not allied. 

 Its orange filament, notably darker than the anthers, the exceptionally short, almost 

 globose capsule and bright orange seed, are distinguishing points. 



REFERENCES TO PLATE XXXIX. 



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



Fig. 2. With matured leaves and capsule. June 23rd, actual size. 



Fig. 3. Stigmata, magnified six-fold. 



Figs. 4 & 5. Stamens and Pistil, magnified two-fold. 



Fig. 6. Pollen Grain, magnified one hundred and fifty-fold. 



Fig. 7. Diagrammatic dissection of scape, ovary, and spathes, actual size. 



Fig. 8. Seed, magnified six-fold. 



Fig. 9. Section of leaf, magnified twelve-fold. 



Fig. 10. Corm tunics, magnified two-fold: « and b, basal tunic: c. main tunic. 



