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Sp. 15. Ccampestris. Pallas, in Herb. Lambert. 



C. serotinus. Ker, in Syn. Bot. Mag., 1267 ? bad. 

 C. hybernus. Fridwaldsky ; in Herb. From the 

 foot of Mt. Hhodope, where it flowers in Decem- 

 ber. 



C. montanus, 2 Clusius. From Byzantine TJirace ? 

 C. cormo unigemmato 1-rarius 2-floro, t. vag. interiore confertim subparal- 

 lelo-fibrosa prope basim affixa, foliaceis tenuiter reticularis superne 

 setosis ext. infra proxima paullo supra med. c. affixa, bractea (ni fallor 

 in sicco) tubata, limbo griseo-cceruleo (in sicco), sepalis majoribus, stig- 

 matibus truncatis. 



Inhabits JRoumelia, on the hills near the River Marissa. 



There were many specimens of this plant collected by Pallas 

 in his herbarium, in the hands of the late A. B. Lambert, Esq., 

 with no memorandum as to the place of their growth. Mr. 

 Fridwaldsky's specimens from the low hills of Rhodope, and 

 Despoto Dagh, from which the Hebrus and its affluents arise, 

 flowering in December in the neighbourhood of Carlowa, seem 

 to be nearly similar, though rather less conspicuous. I have 

 vainly tried to obtain the roots alive from a situation not easily 

 accessible, perhaps 20 miles from Philippopolis, which is 200 

 from Constantinople. I think it is a variety of C. Cartwrighti- 

 anus. 



Dr. Grisebach has unaccountably quoted the name C. cam- 

 pestris, as published by me from the herbarium of Pallas, and at 

 the same time has rejected it silently, and substituted the name 

 hybernus, from the herbarium of Fridwaldsky. The insertion of 

 a name in a herbarium is no publication, and, if it were, that of 

 Pallas has long priority, on that account was preferred by me, 

 and cannot be superseded. 



Sp. 16. C. Pallasianus. Bot. Reg., 1844, 3, f. 2. 

 C. Pallasii. Marsch. JBieb. Suppl. 



C. c. tun. foliaceis acute apiculatis, exteriore subtil iter tenuissime basi re- 

 ticulata, proxima subsimili supra medium cormum affixa, tubo pal- 

 lido vix spatham superante, fauce villosa, limbo unciali pallide violaceo 

 ad basim extus saturate striato, foliis 7 valde angustis. Flore autumnali, 

 foliis (vix?) hysteranthiis. 



Found on sunny hills in the Crimea. 



This native of the Crimea is very imperfectly described. I 

 gave a figure of it, from a dry specimen, in the Bot. Reg. as 

 above. I have not been* able to procure it from the Crimea, 

 but have a bulb from the Ghent nursery, which has not yet 

 flowered. The coats are much more finely reticulate than those 

 of Thomasianus. The Pallasianus of Grisebach, which he refers 

 to the Italian, is Thomasianus, or perhaps Visianicus. Dr. 



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