PL end. ph. 20. IRIDE^. 132. Crocus. 195 



Fields and pastures; perennial; September to Novem- 

 ber : also cultivated. 



Flowers pale blue, streaked with violet; tube yellow; 

 spathe 2-valved ; leaves fringed, come out after the flower, 

 and remain all the winter. — Stigmata cordial. 



c. Lobes of the style many cut ; spathe 1-leaJed; 

 jiowers autumnal, appearing before the leaves. 



S. Crocus midijlorus. Naked saffron. 



Tunics of the combus membranaceous, filamentous. 



Crocus montanus aulumnalis, Ger. em. 154,6. 

 Colchicum commiiDe, Deering Nott, 6T. 

 Crocus nudiflorus, Engl. Bot. 491, 

 Crocus multifidus, Ramond Bull, de S. P. 41, 

 Crocus medius jS, Allioni Add. Fl. Fed. 39. 



Meadows ; perennial ; October. 



Lobes of the styles 7 to I £-cut, cuts linear ; leaves appear 

 in December, upright; edge scarcely revolute; not gan- 

 grened at the tips ; Jiowers naked, purple violet ; fruits in 

 May. 



II. 133. TRICHOMEMA. Kerr. Wild-saffron. 



Tube of the perigonium very short; limb large, 6-cut, 

 regular ; lobes equal ; JiLaments upright, short, pubescent, 

 inserted at the mouth of the tube; anthers connivent; stig^ 

 mata 3-cut, lobes 2- parted, linear, spreading ; capsule 

 3-sided; 5eeJ5 many, rounded. — Combus ovate, conical; base 

 capillary (with a fusiform root); tunicks crustaceous, smooth; 

 toothed at the tip; sheath 2-valved, lanceolate, membra- 

 naceous; leaves mostly 4, slender, linear, ribbed, thickest 

 in the middle ; scape upright, 1 or 2-flowered ; spathe 

 2-valve, lanceolate, acute, glumaceous, edge membrana- 

 ceous ; flowers terminal, sessile, blue. 



Trichomema parviflorum. Small wild-saffron. 



Leaves linear, compressed; lobes of the perigonium lan- 

 ceolate, I'etuse; inner one scarcely broader than the outer: 

 stigma revolute. 



Crocus vernus minor, Ger. em. 152. 



Crocus Bulbocodium, Lin. S. P. 36 ? 



Jlomulea, Miller Figures, 24. \ 



Ixia Bulbocodium, Engl. Bot. 2549. 



Ixia Bulbocodium jS, De Cand. Syn. Fl. Gall. 2000. 



Ixia parviflora, Salisb. Prod. 34. 



Hills in Guernsey ; perennial ; May. 

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