By Adrian Hardy Haworth, Esq. 



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Crocus autumnalis. Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. No. 2. 

 Habitat in Portugal, locis rupestribus haud procul a man. 

 Floret Novembri. 



Obs. Miller enumerates three varieties of this very dis- 

 tinct, and very late-flowering species ; only one of which 

 (the paler blue-flowered) is known to me; its leaves are 

 far shorter than those of any other Crocus ; and very much 

 lower than the flowers, at the time of flowering ; which 

 lasts until late in December. 



13. Crocus (The true Saffron) stigmatibus longissimis pen- Officinalis. 

 dulis. 



Crocus sativus, Spatha univahi radically corolla, tubo longis- 



simo. Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. No. 1. 

 Crocus officinalis. Mart. Fl. Rust. tab. 58. 

 Crocus autumnalis. Eng. Bot. tab. 343. 

 Habitat in Anglia, culta sub dio. 

 Floret Octobri, Novembri. 



Obs. 1. Folia longissima, angustissima, effusa. 

 Munquam variat. 



Obs. 2. For the mode of cultivating this valuable plant for 

 medicinal purposes, see Miller's Dictionary, and other 

 works. 



References to the Plate of Crocus Stellar is. 

 1. Two flowers not yet expanded, shewing the insertion of the peduncles in 

 the young root. 2. 3. The bractes at the bottom of the peduncles magnified. 

 4. Two views of a stamen before it bursts, magnified. 5. Two views of the root 

 cleared of its old coats in the beginning of September, before it has pushed out 

 any fibres. 6. The two outer coats of the root, in which it differs from ever} 

 other species. 7. Young fruit magnified. 8. Stigmata magnified. 9. Pistillum. 



10. Transverse section of the seed leaf of Crocus Lagenaeflorus magnified, 



11. A seedling plant of Crocus Lagenaeflorus, natural size. 



