yellow : pollen yellow. Germen hairy. Style short, 

 erect. Stigma large, capitate, papillose, covering the 

 short style, like an umbrella. 



The present plant is generally confused with C. mons- 

 peliensis in our gardens, though no two plants need be 

 more distinct, and it is much nearer related to C. hir- 

 sutus. It is a native of Crete, as we have ascertained 

 by fine specimens in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium re- 

 ceived from that country, and also marked C. monspe- 

 liensis ; but a comparison with our figure of that spe- 

 cies, or the figure in the Flora Graeca, will easily 

 decide the difference ; we do not know when the pre- 

 sent plant was introduced, but it was most probably 

 brought by Dr. Sibthorp on his return from Greece. 



We have not yet been fortunate enough to find 

 C. creticus in any collection that we have visited, and 

 fear that it is quite lost to the country ; but it may 

 probably still exist in some collection ; should any of 

 our Subscribers or their friends possess the plant, we 

 should feel much obliged for specimens of it when in 

 flower, the plant now known in Nurseries by that 

 name being C.purpureus. 



As the present plant is a native of Crete, it requires 

 a little protection in severe frosty weather, either the 

 covering of a mat, or to be protected in a frame, thriv- 

 ing well in a light sandy soil, and may be increased by 

 seeds, or young cuttings planted under hand-glasses 

 in August or September, will soon strike root. 



Our drawing was made at the Nursery of Messrs. 

 Whitley, Brames, and Milne, near Parsons Green, 

 Fulham. 



