274 A. HISTORY OF THE SPECIES OF CROCUS. 



row linear leaves, whereas those of C. vernus are always wider 

 in the middle of the length, and taper towards each extremity. 

 Amongst Signor Tomasini's specimens I perceived some with a 

 very pale flower and a dark blotch, as in C. Veluchensis and C. 

 Ileuffelianus. It is certainly very closely allied to C. vernus. 



Division III.— NUDIFLORI ; i. e. Crocuses having no 

 involucre. 



Sect. 1. Retictjlati. Bulb- Coats reticulate, 



Sp. 27. C. Veluchensis. 



C. c. tunica vaginacea interiore supra med. c. affixa, proxima prope basim, 

 ambabus duris colore stramineo pallido fibris reticulatis non cribrosis 

 inferne parallel is, tertia exteriore tenuiore peritura, foliaceis omnibus 

 in vertice sitis breviter apiculatis, foliis sex vel ultra, scapo florendi 

 tempore subnullo, spatha et bractea tubata aequalibus, tubo extus vio- 

 lascente fauce extus concolore intus alba, barbata, limbo violaceo sub- 

 ccerulescente laciniis obtusis superne cucullate incurvis apice saepe pal- 

 lido vel albescente macula saturiore transversa apposita stylum stamina 

 aequantem \ unc. superantibus, filamentis albis lsevibus antheras 

 aureas longitudine superantibus, stigmatibus brevibus crassis subinte- 

 gris apice denticulate, foliis sublinearibus tempore florendi enascentibus, 

 seminibus modicis oblongis vel subrotundis dilute brunneo-badiis, raphe 

 rugosa pallida. 



A native of the Morea. 



This species is very closely allied to the variety of Crocus 

 Heuffelianus, in which the involucre is often, but not always, 

 obsolete. In Veluchensis the scape is so short at the time of 

 flowering, that the ovary seems almost sessile, and it can 

 scarcely be seen whether the plant has a naked scape and bracteate 

 spathe, or an involucre and no bracte. When the scape grows 

 longer, it is ascertained to be naked. It was found by Yrioni in 

 pretty strong soil, on the lower parts, on the promontories, and 

 on the summit of Veluchi, probably on the slopes, for it appears 

 not to like a damp so well as a dry situation. Specimens of this 



Crocus were distributed by the collector, Sprunner, under 



the name of C. nivalis, JBory, — a plant which has the throat of 

 the flower orange. I do not feel confident that an involucre may 

 not be hereafter found occasionally in this plant and Tomasin- 

 ianus, and that they may not rank as three local varieties of one, 

 C. subnudus. 



Sp. 28. C. nivalis. Bory, Voyage de la Moree. 



C. sublimis. Herbert, Bot. Reg., 1845, Misc. 73. 



Ib. 1847, 4, f. 2. 

 C. Sieberianus. Gay, B. F. t 25, 220. 

 C. cormi tun. duabus vag. tenuibus membranaceis tertia interiore dura pal- 



