22 TUIANDIIIA — MONOGYNIA. [_CrOCUS. 



confounded with the last, from which it is perfectly distinct. Leaves 

 narrower, the upper ones more toothed and even pectinated. Flowers. 

 flesh-coloured. Fruit obpyriform, convex on the back where is the larger 

 and perfect cell nearly jjlane in front; where are the two al)ortive cells, 

 and these are shrunk so as to form two projecting lines or ribs, which 

 are terminated by two small subulate teeth ; between them is often an- 

 other little tooth, while the perfect cell is lengthened out into a large 

 broad and sharp tooth, which has generally at its base two smaller slightly 

 inflexed teeth, one on each side. The whole fruit is glabrous or nearly 

 so, in a. : in /3. and y. which Mr Wilson by the most accurate investi- 

 gations has satisfied me are different states of this species, it is clothed 

 with patent incurved rigid hairs. 



3. F. Auricula, Gaud, (shcap -fruited Cor7i- Sallad) ; capsule 

 ovate acuminated somewhat inflated slightly grooved in front 

 glabrous crowned with the single entire tooth of the limb of the 

 calyx, flowers corymbose, a sessile flower in the forks. Reich. 

 Ic. Bot. V. i. t. 63. — Valerianella Auricula, De Cand. Fl. Fr. 

 SuppL p. 492. Coll. Mem. t. 3. /. 6. (fruit.)— Pj. Wood's MS. 

 F. trident. "Stev." — Reich. Ic. Bot. t. 64. 



a. Hastings, in fields below Ore Lane. Dr Bromjicld. Slaughter 

 Farm, near Bourlon on the water, llev. J. li. 2\ Billinysleij. Hen- 

 bury, near Bristol. Dr Stewart. Jersey. Babi/igtou Sf Christy. Fife- 

 shire. Mr G. M'Nab.—li Linduli)h, Cornwafl. Mev. R. T. Bree. 

 June, July.0. — The fruit is certainly considerably different from the last 

 species, being broader and more inflated, obscurely furrowed in front (not 

 ribbed) and crowned with a small single tooth of the limb of the calyx. 



4. F. carinata, Stev. (^carinated Fedia); capsule oblong ri- 

 moso-carinate glabrous the 2 sterile cells nearly equal to the 

 fertile one, crowned with the straight single tooth of the limb 

 of the calyx. — Valei'ianella carinata, Loisel. — Reich. Icon. Bot. 

 t. Q\. De Cand. Prodr. v. iv. p. 629. Mem. sur les Valer. t. 3. 

 /. 10. 



Hedge-bank of a bye-road about a mile from the Craven Arms, 

 Shropshire (10 miles west of Ludlow), and between Gresford and 

 Wrexham. J. E. Bowman, Esq., to whom I am indebted for very 

 characteristic specimens. Jersey. Bahington and Christy. 



3. Crocus. Linn. Crocus. 



1. *C. sativus, L, (Saff'ro?i Crocus); stigma in three deep 

 linear divisions protruded drooping. E. Bot. t. 343 (^C. atifum- 

 nalis.) E. Fl. v. \.p. 46. 



Meadows ; as about SaflTron-Walden in Essex, where it is cultivated 

 for the sake of its fragrant stigmas, which constitute saffron. FL Sept. If-. 



2. * C. vermis, Willd. (purple Spring Crocus) ; stigma within 

 the flower erect cut into 3 jagged wedge-shaped lobes. E. Bot. t. 

 344. — C. sativus (3. L. 



Meadows and fields. Plentiful about Nottingham. Fl. March. If. 



3. * C. m'nimus, HeA. (least piiiplc Crocus) ; stigmas erect, longer 

 than the stamens included in the solitary flower, leaves linear- 

 filiform, bulb with a membranous coat. Red, PL Lit. v. ii. t. 81. 



