2I2 THE GENUS CROCUS. 



C. alepfiicus, Baker, Rev. Sp. Crocus in Card. Chron., new ser., 1873, p. 609; List Crocus in Journ. R. 

 Hort. Soc. Lond., new ser., vol. iv, 1S77; and Syst. Iridac. in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., vol. xvi, p. 



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 ? C. intromissus, Herbert, Hist. Crocus, sp. 19, p. 22; from Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond., vol. 11, p. 26b. 



Cormus 4—* poll. (0.0 1 3-0.019 met,.) latus et circiter J poll. (0.019 metr.) altus; fibn tunics tenues 

 reticulati pilcus in processubus ligulatis fibroso-membranaceis, biunciahbus. Vaginae, quam spatna 

 breviores, scapi 2-3. Folia 5-6, Sores superantia, glabra, Jj poll. (000.3 metr.) lata; canal.cul. 

 laterales ecostati. Spatha diphylla, valvule . poll. (0.025 metr.) longa, fauce pequames. Penan- 

 thium: tubus 1 poll. (0.025 metr.) longa; faux haud barbata (?); segmenta minima circiter f po . 

 (0016 metr.) longa, * poll. (o.oo + z metr.) lata, extus pallide lilacina. Antherae albse circiter \ poll. 

 (0.0063 metr.) longa, quam filamenta flava parum longiores. Stylus ad basin antherarum hssus; 

 stigmata congesta capillacea aurantiaca quam antherae breviores. 



Conn from half an inch to three-quarters of an inch (0.013-0.019 metre) broad and high. Tunic of 

 fine reticulated fibres; the Cap produced into ligulate fibro-membranous appendages, from an inch 

 and a half (0.038 metre) to two inches (0.050 metre) in height. 



Sheathing Leaves about three, from half an inch (0.013 metre) to three inches (0.075 metre) in length, 

 falling short of the proper spathes, including two or three scapes. 



Proper Leaves five or six, three or four inches in length (0.075-0.100 metre) somewhat exceeding the 

 flowers at the flowering-time and produced to a length of about a foot (0.300 me re) a^ >TE2l 

 JL of an inch (0.0021 metre) broad, glabrous; the keel about half the width of the blade, the lateral 

 channels without ridges. 



Proper Spathe diphyllous, about an inch (0.025 metre) in length, exceeding the sheathing leaves and 

 reaching nearly to the throat. 



Perianth: Tube about an inch (0.025 metre) long from the ovary to the throat Throat unbearded (?). 

 Segments very small, about five-eighths of an inch (0.016 metre) long, and one-s,xth of an inch 

 (0^042 metre) broad; white; the outer surface of the outer segments occasionally suffused with pur- 

 ple or lilac. 



Stamens exceeding the pistil, barely half an inch (0.013 metre) high; the Anthers white, a little longer 

 than the yellow Filament. 



Pistil from three-eighths to half an inch (0.0.0-0.0.3 metre) in height from the throat; the Style di- 

 viding at the level of the base of the anthers, and produced into pale orange capillary stigmata 

 which scarcely reach the level of the anthers. 



Scape at the flowering-time about an inch in height (0.025 metre). 

 Capsule and Seed unknown. 



Crocus Gaillardotii was first described from Damascus by Boissier and Blanche, 

 as a variety of C. hyemalis (Diag. ser. 2, p. 93); and afterwards as C. ahppicus by 

 Baker {fiord. Chron'. 1873, p. 609) from specimens collected in 1867 by Haussknecht, 

 near Aleppo; Haussknecht' s plant, however, is unquestionably identical with that 



