By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



The Crocuses represented in the accompanying Plate, are 

 some of those hereafter described. The numbers in the 

 Index Plate correspond with the following enumeration of 

 the species and varieties figured. 



1. C. sulphureus concolor. 



2. C. lagenaeflorus. 



3. C. lacteus penicillatus. 



4. C. biflorus Parkinsonii. 



5. C. argenteus praecox. 



6. C. versicolor purpureus. 



7. C. plumosus. 



9. C. urbanus. 



10. C. vernus plumbeus. 



C. vernus albus major. 



15. C. 



16. C. 



17. C 



18. C. 



19. C. 



leucorhyncus. 



inflatus. 



fucatus. 



pictus. 



Andersonii. 



Sabini. 



Gloriana. 



pulchellus. 



The Spring Crocuses about to be described are divisi- 

 ble into three Classes, thus distinguished from each other. 



1st. Spring Crocuses with yellow flowers. 



2nd. Spring Crocuses with various-coloured flowers, (not 

 yellow) having the mouths of the flower-tubes without hairs. 



3rd. Spring Crocuses with various-coloured flowers, (not 

 yellow) having the mouths of the flower-tubes hairy. 



CLASS I. 



Spring Crocuses with yellow Flowers. 



In this division are included all the Species of Crocus 

 which either produce yellow, or cream-coloured flowers, 

 with their varieties. They are, more or less, early, being 

 nearly all in full blossom before the principal varieties of 

 Crocus vernus shew themselves. The species to be described 



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