A HISTORY OF THE SPECIES OF CROCUS. 



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the British vice-consul in Caramania, having been found in the 

 neighbourhood of Angora. 



A mistake has crept into the Botanical Register, 1847, t. 4, 

 concerning this plant, in consequence of its corms having been 

 mixed with some of annulatus or pusillus found by Vrioni on 

 the mountains of Nauplia. 



Sp. 36. C. chrysanthus. Herbert, Bot. Mag., 1841, 3862, 

 p. 2. Bot. Reg., 1843, Misc. p. 27. 



C. c. e minimis tun. foliaceisduris inferne annulate circumscissis, spatha et 

 bractea tubum aureum amplexis sequantibus, limbo \ unc. aureo petalis 

 obtusioribus quam sepala (ut videtur), styli lobis brevibus parum inci- 

 sis antheras superantibus. 



Inhabits the low mountains near Mhodope and the Despoto 

 Dagh, flowering in February about the village of Carlova — 

 Fridwaldsky. In Macedonia and Thrace — Grisebach, who calls 

 it C. sulphureus. 



This little plant, which appears to have the corm of the annu- 

 late crocuses, with a flower approaching to those of lagenaeflorus 

 and chrysanthus, is only known by Fridwaldsky 's dried specimen. 

 From its position, remote from all easy access, I have not been 

 able to procure it. Dr. Grisebach errs widely in referring it to 

 Ker's sulphureus, which I have had forty years in cultivation, 

 and can assert to be very dissimilar ; and in fact an old sterile 

 garden variety of C. lagenaeflorus aureus. It has no semblance 

 of persistent rings to the vaginaceous coats. 



Sp. 37. C. annulatus. Herbert, Bot. Mag., 1841, 3861, 

 p. 4. Bot. Reg., 1843, Misc. p. 26. 



C. c. tun. vagin. tenuibus basi annulate circumscissa persistente, fbliacea exte- 

 riore membranacea. dura intus nitida infra medium c. affix a, spatha? 

 bractea cylindracee involuta. (non-cylindrica), limbi basi intus saturate 

 lutea, filamentis pubescentibus, stylo subcoccineo, stigmatibus indivisis 

 aspero-subtruncatis odoratis, foliorum marginibus reflexis, seminibus 

 subsphsericis raphe et chalaza conspicuis. Flore verno. 

 Var. 1. Biflorus, Miller. Bot. Mag., 845. Vaginis ortu primo hteis, 

 scapo (vidi ipse) interdum furcato bifloro, limbo subalbo, sepalis extus 

 stramineis, petalis macula extus ad basim plumbea 5-striatis, filamentis 

 et fauce pubescentibus, foliorum margine crasso recurvo et costal dor- 

 salis margine ciliatis canaliculis dorsalibus binervibus. 

 Subvar. 1. Stigmatosus ; Sabine. Stigmatibus limbum superantibus. 

 Var. 2. Adamicns; C. Adami, Gay, B. de F., 25, p. 219, 1831. Bot. Mag., 

 3868. Vaginis pallidis, limbo intus pallide cceruleo-violaceo, sepalis 

 extus saturate cceruleo-violaceo 5-7-plumeo striatis, filamentis saturate 

 luteis leevibus | unc. infra limbum tubo insertis, stigmatibus integris 

 plicate'truncatis subtiliter fimbriatis pallide aureis antheras filamentis 

 duplo longiores superantibus. A native of the Caucasus. 

 Var. 3. Nvbigena; Herbert, Bot. Keg., 1843, M. p. 81. Vaginis pallidis, 

 tun. vag. int. annulo fibris aculeiformibus ciliato, foliacea exteriore 

 longe infra medium affixa, interioribus fere obsoletis basi gracili cir- 



