A HISTOET OF THE SPECIES OF CROCUS. 



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Var. I. Stauricus : limbo albo violascente. 



Inhabits the Alps of Trebizond. on Mount Koolat Dagh. 

 Var. 2. Pulchricolor ; limbo saturate violaceo, inferne saturate luteo. 



From the Bithynian Olympus. 



I am indebted to the vice-consuls at Trebizond and Brussa for 

 these plants, with imperfect specimens of the flower. The bulbs 

 were scarcely bigger than a pea. and all , but one of the whiter 

 Stauric plants failed, and that has pushed a weak leaf and exists. 

 The colour of the dry Olympic flower is very rich. The pass 

 from Trebizond to Stauros is choked with snow till June, and 

 both C. aerius and the autumnal C. vallicola appear to be few in 

 number or not to flower freely on Koolat Dagh, for the result 

 of two missions from Trebizond in search of them produced very 

 few. and those in a weak and almost hopeless state. I hear that a 

 third expedition was more productive in June. 1S46. but the roots 

 were afterwards lost ; another attempt in the autumn and spring 

 of 1847 may perhaps succeed. 



Sp. 39. C. Ittvigatus. Bory de St. Vincent. Voyage du 

 Moree. 



C. vemus. Smith. Prodr. FL Gtgec. 



C. c, tun. vaginaceis duris lsevibus enervibus infra squamre form iter laceris. 

 spathis 1-4 unifloribus, bracteA subaequali, genuine fere exserto, tubo 

 pa rum exserto, limbo subalbido. sepalis extus purpura tristriatis, fauce 

 aurantiaca, foliis synantbiis subangustis. Flore verno. 



Xatireofthe 3/orea ; in Therm ia and Jlelo : on Hymettus, 

 and near the quarantine station o f Zeitun. 



All my attempts to procure this plant, though Vrioni went 

 on purpose to seek it near the quarantine station at Zeitun. 

 where it abounds with much variety of colour, have failed. 

 On further reflection I am satisfied that, having no sufficient de- 

 scription of C. laevigatus. for Bory's is very meagre, and no 

 opportunity of ascertaining the internal structure of the bulb- 

 coats. I mistook two imperfect specimens in Sibthorp's herba- 

 rium for a separate soft-coated species. I now believe that they 

 exhibit the outer foliaceous coat of C. laevigatus. which is no- 

 where described. 



Sp. 40. C. speciosus. Marsch. v. Bieb.— Bot. Mag., 3S61. 



C. c. tun. membranaceis tenuibus lineis raris parallelis superce confluentibus, 

 vaginacearum basi persist«nte lacere disrupta, foliaeei exteriore infra 

 medium c. affixa. spatha occulta tubata. bracteasequali non tubata tubum 

 amplexa. tubo elongato exserto. fauce supra straminea pills albis minutis 

 hispida, sepalis cceruleo-purpureis lineis tribus et basi extus saturatiori- 

 bus, petalis pallidioribus saturate et puloherrimc venosis, filamentis 

 circ. \ unc. infra faueem insertis circ. ^ unc. liberis. stigmatibus multi- 



