66. CROCUS FLEISCHERI. 



Section: Nudiflori; reticulati (Herbert): Schizostigma; vernal (Baker): Intertexti (G. Maw). 



Crocus Fleischeri, Gay in Feruss. Bull. Sc. Nat, vol. xi, anno 1827, p. 319 (219), and drawing Bibl f D 

 Hooker; Tch.hatcheff, Asie Min., part hi, Bot., vol. ii, p. 523; Biker, Rev Sp J Crocus n Gard' 

 Chron., new sen, 1873, p. 680; in Bot. Mag. 1875, tab. 6,76; List Crocus in journ R H or t S ' 

 Lond new ser., vo . iv, ,877; and Syst. Iridac. in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., vol. xvT p 84 G ' Maw 



C. smyrnensis, Poech, Enum. PI. Ins. Cyp., p. n. 



C. minimus var. major (not C. minimus, D. C), Presl, Bot. Bemerk., p. „6. 



C.candidus (not C. candidus, Clarke), Boiss. Diag., ser. i, xiii, pp ,6-17 



C ' Pe £iS)%& M.t^ PeU,C ' 7la ' !lS > Sabhle ' WWch " a h -ticultural form of C. aureus, Sibth. and 



Cormus aureus t poll (0.0.7 metr. altus et latus, basi bulbiferus. Tunica; fibri flavescenti hr„„, 1P i 

 tenues, m fascicules verticales quasi intertexti; pileus fibris reticulata confecfus tunica basaH fihrt 

 radiatis tenmbus haud ramosis confecta. Vagina quam spatha breviores Folia SrS 7 1 ♦ 



Conn from half an inch to three-quarters of an inch (0.013-0.019 metre) hiffh and broad vellow 

 producing bulbils or cormlets at its base. Tunic of fine yellowish brown fibre arranged in ve Seal 

 unoranchld'fibret "^ *' °« °' ^ -"^fibres; the Basal ^Tlne, radTaSg! 



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