XXX, 
CROCUS SEROTINUS. 
Late-Flowering Chari: 
ORDO NATURALIS. 
Irides. Juss. Gen. p. 57. 
Sect. If, Pericarpium bracteis vestitum. 
Bracteez 1-2, longe spathacee, = aline, preter aliam sub pedunculo. Corolle Tubus angus- 
tu i ‘subterraneus : : Limbus amplus, profunde 6-fidus, sisnatine Stigmata obcuneata, 
cristata, plus minus fissa. Pericarpium oblongum, torulosum. Semina parum succulenta. Radix 
tuber @ novis ratione numert gemmarum super vetustum 38 foliantur prodeuntibus quotannis 
exhaustum, plerumque sphwricum tunicis stupaceis. Stipule 5-9, fere tote sublerranee, spa- 
thacew. Folia 3-7; radicalia, anguste linearia basi ima yt dilatata, supra per vittam al- 
bidam spongiosam EERIE subtus in carinam planam extantia. Flores axillares, solita. 
rit vel duo fasciculum mentientes. Pedunculus in florescentia vix ullus, fructu maturo demum 
usque ad superfictem terre elongatus. 
# « Folia latiuscula. 
C. Bracteis 2 sub pericarpio : Corolla limbo basi obsoletissime barbato, clauso urceolari: Stig- 
—— profunde multifidis 
C. montanus Antumnalis. Park ee ar. 16. Crocum montanum. 1 Clus. Hist. Pl. lib. 2. 
p- 208. cum ic. Crocum montanum. ‘Glas. Rar. Hisp. p. 264. cum Ic. Pie de Borro. Lu- 
sttanis. 
Sponte nascentem in Portugal, locis rupestribus haud procul a mari, legit C. PEcluse. 
Floret Novembri. 
The latest of the Automusal Crocusses, and perfectly page oe from the Nudiflorus, with which 
Dr. Smith has confounded it in his Flora Britannica and English Botany. Its deeply cut stigmata 
and yellow stipule indeed shew some affinity to that aie bat the leaves of this always appear 
at the same time with the flower, after those of the Nudiflorus are past and here F rom red 
, erently, and that one of the peduncles oh 
rather to be considered as a branche ¢ . for seg the peduncles nor bractes 
placed exactly in the same plane, but one higher 
the analogy of Trichonema, a genus which au Kerr (lately Gawler) justly observes oe 
allied to Crocus. It is one of the few rare plants which escaped the devastation of my p x 
Sor at Mill Hill, and in a mild season is a great ornament to our gardens, flower: — * — 
2 south wall till the beginning of December. me ee 
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REFERENCES TO THE PLATE. 
1. Inside of an Anther and Filament before the Pollen is discharged. 
2 The Anthers and Stigmata mt before the flower Sol 
