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the flower; the stigmas are deep yellow, spreading, and 

 about even with the anthers. The bulbs are of tolerable 

 size, rather flattened ; they are covered with a netted coat, 

 the reticulations of which are filled up by a membrane, when 

 they are in a state of vegetation. This Crocus produces only 

 a small quantity of seed. 



In the Transactions of the Horticultural Society, volume I. 

 page 136, Mr. Ha worth, in describing this species in 1809, 

 has called it C. revolutus : but the name of Susianus had 

 been applied to it some years (1803) before in the Botanical 

 Magazine, folio 652, by Mr. Bellenden Ker. In the figure 

 given of it in that Work, the dark markings are too much 

 divided, and the flower too much elevated ; the stigma also is 

 made pale instead of deep yellow. 



In the fourth Edition of the Hortus Cantabrigiensis, pub- 

 lished in 1807, Donn called this species C. reflexus ; but, as he 

 also in his List added C. Susianus, it has been supposed that 

 he had t wo distinct plants in his view ; I am inclined, however, 

 to think it was otherwise, and that the mistake thus made, 

 was an oversight of that usually accurate and intelligent Bo- 

 tanist. In the Hortus Eystettensis,* (published in 1613) is a 

 very good figure of C. Susianus, under the description of 

 " Crocus vernus aureus variegatus." It is also figured by 

 Redoute in the Plantes Liliacees, Plate 293. The represen- 

 tation there is very indifferent ; the flower is too small ; the 

 marks on the backs of the petals are not properly distinct, 

 and the root is not netted ; yet notwithstanding these differ- 

 ences, I have no doubt, that it was the Artist's intention to 

 give a figure of this variety. 



* Plant* Hyemales, folio 2, Fig. 3. 



