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A HISTORY OF THE 6PECIES OF CROCUS. 



C. speciosus, Reichenbach, Icon. Bot. cent. 10. 

 C. iridiflorus, Heuffcl and Reichenbach. 



C. cormo depresso complanato tunicis tenuibus vag. demum in fibras liberas 

 subreticulatas inferne parallelas solutis interiore circiter medio proxima 

 prope basim affixis, foliaceis reticulate nervatis supra med. c. affixis, 

 spatha ebracteata 1-2 -floro, sepalis la;te violaceis sesquiuncialibus \\ 

 unc. latis vel infra vel ultra petala pallidiora multum angustiora (\ 

 unc. lata) interdum alba superne purpurasceutia longe superantibus, 

 antheris luteis, stigmatibus multifidis diffusis saturate violaceis, 

 foliis hysteranthiis latis utrinque attenuatis lsete viridibus stria alba 

 fere obsoleta. Floret Septembri. 



Inhabits thickets and woods in the Banat, and in Wallachia 

 near Krajova. Parkinson had it from Turkey. 



I am indebted for good dried specimens and live roots of this 

 fine Crocus to Dr. Heuffel, who sent them to me from Hungary. 

 It is a beautiful kind, very remarkable from its purple style, the 

 size of its spreading sepals or outer segments, and the smallness 

 of its erect pale petals, with the points a little recurved, and 

 marked with purple lines, which give it the semblance of an Iris. 

 In one of the dry specimens the sepals are intensely blue, and the 

 petals pure white. The leaves, which are rather broad, are also 

 remarkable from the white stripe being scarcely distinguishable 

 in them. It inhabits mountain woods and bushy places, where 

 it flowers in September, and will probably not like a very moist 

 situation. In Yorkshire it flowered freely in October, 1846, 

 beginning before the end of September. It was cultivated, as 

 well as the cloth of silver, C. reticulatus, of old by Parkinson, 

 but both had been long lost. 



Sp. 23. C. Carpetanus. Boissier and Reuter, diagn. pi. 

 nov. Hisp., p. 24. 



C. tun. tenuissime retic. maculis valde elongatis, scapo flor. temp, ± unc. 

 (involucrato ?) spatha (ebracteata ?) tubo plus duplo breviore, arcta, 

 alba pallide violac. striata tubo superne violaceo griseoque suffuso, 

 limbi laciniis subsequalibus obovatis concavis pallide lilacinis dorso medio 

 saturatius coloratis ultra-uncialibus, fauce lsevi alba, filamentis albis 

 antheras (aureas ?) non aequantibus fauce insertis, stigmate antheras vix 

 subsequante pallide violaceo striis intensioribus picto stigmatibus 3-4- 

 lobatis brevissime fimbriatis, capsula ovata obtusa trigona violascente. 

 Flore verno. 



Found in the alpine region of the Sierra de Guadarra??ia, 

 near Puerto de Nava Cerrada, in pine woods on the northern 

 slope. Reuter. 



This Spanish vernal Crocus is only known by Boissier and 

 Reuter's description, flowering in the place above indicated. 

 It agrees with C. Byzantinus in having a purple style. The 

 proximity of Beira to the Sierra de Guadarrama makes it probable 

 that the C. vernus of the Fl. Lusit. is this plant ; C. vernus, 



