WINTER AND SPRING FLOWERING SPECIES, 



WITH YELLOW OR WHITE FLOWERS, THE LEAVES APPEARING WITH THE FLOWERS. 



The first four of the following species are closely allied, and form a natural group. They have all 

 finely divided capillary stigmata, oblong bright crimson seeds with a glabrous surface, and yellow 

 flowers produced in the winter and early spring. In the first two, C. vitellinus and C Balansa the 

 stigmata are much branched and spreading In C. Suterianus and C. Oilmen, the individual stigmata 

 are merely bifid, resulting in six stigmatic divisions, in which they resemble the stiornata of C 

 candidus. 



