DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. 175 
common C. aurea, which has golden yellow flowers, are 
both pretty plants for rock-work. 
CREPIS. 
CA name made use of by Pliny, a plant of which he gives no description.] 
Crépis barbéta.—The Purple-eyed Crepis, is an uncom- 
monly hardy and beautiful annual, of the easiest culture. 
The flower-stems are prostrate like those of Convoluulus 
tricolor. Grown in masses and the plants thinned out to 
eighteen inches distant, it makes a fine appearance. It 
begins to flower the first of July, and continues till Octo- 
ber or November, covered with beautiful flowers, the 
rays of a light-yellow, finely contrasted with the bril- 
liant purple-brown of the centre. 
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CROCUS. 
(Crocus, an unhappy lover, whom the gods in pity were said to have changed 
into this flower.] 
“ Glad as the spring, when the first Crocus comes 
To laugh amid the shower.” 
Crocus vérnus.—The Spring Crocus is a bulbous rooted 
plant, of which there are many varieties annually imported 
from Holland, and sold at very low prices. The most 
prominent sorts are the great yellow, deep-blue, light-blue, 
white with blue stripes, blue with white stripes, white with 
a purple base, pure white, cloth of gold, etc. It flowers 
in April, and in warm seasons, in sheltered places, fre- 
quently in March. Where there is a plenty of them, they 
make a magnificent show. The bulbs are small, solid, and 
flat. They should be planted in September or October, 
about one inch or one and one-half inch deep, in any good 
