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On the Cultivation of Crocuses. 



Crocus vernus. Bot. Mag. tab. 45. Nec Cr ocus vernus, 

 Eng. Bot. vel Sm. Fl. Brit, qui diversissimus est. 

 - 4. Crocus, (The lesser Gold-coloured) filamentis pubescentibus 

 superne geniculatis, antheris incurvo-patentibus. 



Crocus Lagenaeflorus y. Salisb. Far. Lond. t. 106. Crocus 

 aureus. Sibth. Fl. Grceca, v. l.p. 25. tab. 35. 



Habitat prope Sestum, arenosis argilld substratis. 



Floret Martio. 



Descriptio. Praecedenti simillimus, at satis distinctus minor- 

 que. Variat. 



u. Corollae laciniae peraureae, valde imbricalae, obtusissimse, 



concavo-incurvae. 

 (3. Corollae laciniae albicantes, basi ( praecipue intus) flavi- 



cante. Stigmata flavicantia. 

 Crocus Lagenaeflorus j8. Salisb. Par. Lond. 106. Crocus 



maesiacus (3. Gawler in Bot. Mag. n. 1111. cum Ic. 

 Flos exsiccatus persulphureus est. 



y. Gracilior omni parte, quam a vel jG ; laciniis corollae minus 

 imbricatis, albis ; interioribus basin versus, ad costam, 

 flavicantibus ; exterioribus a basi, fere ad medium, tuboque 

 laetissime prasino striatulis. Filamenta minus pubescentia, 

 atque tenuiora quam in a, vel (3. 



Crocus Lagenaeflorus a. Salisb. Par. Lond. 106. 



Forte cum /3, propria species. 



Obs. I have never had an opportunity of cultivating any of 

 the supposed varieties of this species. The above de- 

 scription of a, was made from two recent flowers, without 

 leaves, given me by my friend Richard An thony Salis- 

 bury, Esq. our Secretary, and they are all which I have seen. 

 The variety jQ, which will probably prove to be a species, 



