By Adrian Hardy Ha worth, Esq. 131 



fectly understood : no regular enumeration of the species 

 having ever appeared. 



This in some measure arises from that great Botanist 

 Linn^us having most injudiciously reduced them to one 

 species only ; notwithstanding our own immortal Gardener, 

 Miller, had long before, in his matchless Dictionary, very 

 satisfactorily described four species. 



However, the new editor of his Species Plantaram, Profes- 

 sor Willdenow, admits two distinct Crocuses in that edi- 

 tion. And the President of the Linnean Society, figures and 

 describes three, as natives of Great Britain. Others also have 

 since appeared in the Botanical Magazine, and Paradisus 

 Londinensis. Long ago I named and described all the 

 species and varieties enumerated in this paper, for the pur- 

 pose of publication ; my names are therefore here preser- 

 ved ; although some of the plants have lately been given 

 to the public, under different appellations. 



I now proceed to a regular definition of all the species of 

 this Genus known to me, in scientific language ; dividing 

 them into two sections ; and the first of these again, into 

 two subdivisions ; from diversities observable in the con- 

 formation of their flowers ; or the periods of their producing 

 them: as follows. 



