FIG. 100. Colchicum autumnale. A, flowering plant, much reduced. B, lower 

 part of the same, natural size. G, corm, cut vertically : k, corm ; k', young 

 corm for the next year ; &", bud destined to reproduce the plant after k' has 

 developed. D, portion of the same, showing h, the leaves enveloping the 

 corm. E, upper part of perianth, halved. F, ovary, o, with the three styles. 

 O, ovary, magnified. H, fruit. 7, the same, cut transversely, showing the 

 K, seed, magnified. L, the same, cut to show the embryo, e. (Luerssen. ) 



