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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



66532 to 66615— Continued. 



66547 to 66555. Crocus spp. Iridaceae. 



66547. Crocus asturicus Herbert. 



mish crocus with flowers about \ l i 

 inches long: the segments are lilac, the anthers 

 bright yellow, and the style orange. 



66543. Crocus etruscus Pari. 



The leaves of this Italian crocus, about 

 three in number, are very narrow; the peri- 

 anth segments are about an inch long, Mac, 

 or the outer ones cream colored, and the 

 throat yellow; the anthers and style are 



66549. Crocus imperati Tenore. 



An Italian species with four to six very 

 narrow leaves, exceeding the flowers, and 

 lilac or white flowers with the outer segments 

 but! and three striped, and yellow anthers. 



66550. Crocus laevigatus Bory and Chaub. 



The leaves of this crocus, which is native to 

 Greece, are three or four in a tuft, as high as 

 the flowers and very narrow with reflexed 

 margins and a white band. The flowers are 

 pure white or with three to five lilac stripes 

 on the outer segments, and the threat is 

 yellow . 



66551. Crocus medius Balb. 



A lilac-flowered crocus, native to France 

 and Italy, with narrow leaves a foot or more 

 high. 



66552. Crocus salzmaxxi J. Gay. 



A Moroccan crocus, with about six very 

 narrow leaves, not prominent at flowering 

 time. The lilac flowers have yellowish 

 anthers and throat. 



66553. Crocus speciosus Bieb. 



The leaves of this crocus, which is native 

 to Asia Minor, are usually three in number. 

 They are very narrow, developing after the 

 flowers and becoming a foot long. The 

 flowers are lilac, with darker featherings, 

 and the large anthers are bright orange. 



66554. Crocus tommasixiaxus Herbert. 



A crocus native to Serbia and Dalmatia; 

 the narrow leaves appear with the flowers, 

 which are pale bluish red with pale orange 

 anthers. 



66555. Crocus zoxatus J. Gay. 



The narrow-linear leaves of this Asia 

 Minor species appear after the flowers. 

 The rosy lilac flowers. 2 to 3 inches long, are 

 purple veined and orange spotted within, and 

 the throat is yellow and pubescent. The 

 anthers are white. 



6655S to 66559. Cytisus spp. Fabaceae. 



Broom. 



66556. Cytisus graxdtflorus (Brot.) DC 



A spineless leguminous shrub with long 

 rodlike branches, trifoliolate leaves, and large 

 solitary yellow flowers. Native to Spain. 



66557. Cytisus biflorus L'Herit. 



A leguminous shrub 3 feet high, with 

 slender branches and leaflets with silky lower 

 surfaces. The yellow flowers are single or in 

 pairs. Native to Europe and western Asia. 



66553. Cytisus sessiltfolius L. 



Sessile broom. 



A leguminous shrub, native to Greece, 

 with trifoliolate leaves and erect racemes of 

 yellow flowers. 



66532 to 66615— Continued. 



66559. Cytisus supinus L. 



Big-flower broom. 

 An erect shrub about 3 feet high, native to 

 central and southern Europe. The oblong- 

 oval leaflets, about an inch long, are hairy 

 beneath, and the yellow flowers are nearly 

 an inch long. 



66560. Deutzia loxgifolia veitchii (Veitch) 



Rehder. Hydrangeaceae. Long-leaf deutzia. 



This deutzia, from Yunnan, China, which 



bears its large flowers in dense many-flowered 



corymbs, is one of the handsomest of the genus, 



but it has proved hardy only under protection 



at the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass.. 



For previous introduction see No. 53698. 



66561 to 66566. Erodium spp. Geraniaceae. 



Heronbill. 



66581. Erodium caryifolium Boiss. and 



Reut. 



An attractive herbaceous perennial, native 

 to Spain, with radical leaves about 6 inches 

 long and purplish flowers on a scape about a 

 foot long. 



66562. Erodium trifolium Cav. (E. hyme- 

 nodes L'Herit.). 



A half-hardy herbaceous perennial about 

 9 inches high, with pink flowers. Native tc 

 Algeria. 



66563. Erodium glaxdulosum (Cav.) 

 Willd. (E. macradenum L'Herit.). 



A sternless herbaceous perennial, native 

 to the Pyrenees Mountains, with long stout 

 roots, hairy leaves 2 to 6 inches long, and 

 light -purple flowers three-fourths of an inch 

 across. 



66564. Erodium maxescavi Coss. 



Pyrenees heronbill. 



A herbaceous perennial plant, belonging 

 to the geranium family, about a foot and a 

 half high, with narrow leaves 6 inches or 

 mere in length, and rosy purple flowers about 

 2 inches across. It grows wild in the Pyrenees 

 Mountains. 



For previous introduction see No. 639S5. 



66565. Erodium petraeum (Gouan) Willd. 

 A herbaceous perennial, native to Asia 



Minor, with a vertical rhizome, numerous 

 crowded basal leaves and violet or pink 

 flowers. 



66566. Erodium supracaxum L'Herit. 



A sternless herbaceous perennial with a 

 vertical rhizome, numerous densely hairy- 

 leaves, and white, red-veined flowers. Na- 

 tive to the Pyrenees Mountains. 



66567. EuoNYMUSMAACKnRupr. Celastraceae. 

 A large shrub or small tree, with narrowly 



oval leaves about 3 inches long, and small 

 clusters of pink, four-lobed fruits with orange- 

 red arils. Native to northeastern Asia. 



66568. Euoxymus yedoexsis Koehne. Celas- 

 traceae. 



A large handsome Japanese shrub which, 

 bears dense clusters of pink, deeply four-lobed 

 fruits with orange arils. 



For previous introduction see No. 61982. 



66569. Evodia hupehexsis Dode. Rutaceae. 



A very common tree in the woodlands of 

 western Hupeh, China, according to E. H. 

 Wilson (Plantae Wilsonianae, vol. 2, pt. 1)„ 

 where it grows to a height of 20 to 40 feet. It 

 has smoofh gray bark, spreading branches, and 

 white flowers in large flat corymbs. 



For previous introduction see No. 63357. 



