442 Account and Description of Spring Crocuses, fyc. 



distinct, but without success ; for, in the succeding year, the 

 roots so selected produced flowers of the usual character. 



5. C. sulphureus albidus. Is paler than the preceding, 

 and is also without any brown marks; the flower has the 

 appearance of having had the yellow colour discharged from 

 the upper part of the petals, which usually seem as if blighted 

 or damaged by weather. The anthers, in this variety, stand 

 somewhat higher, and the stigmas lower in the flower, than in 

 any of the others. Its period of blossoming is a little later than 

 that of the others before described. This is the Crocus flavus 

 /3. of Mr. Ha worth,* and the " Narrow-leaved Crocus, with a 

 smaller brimstone-coloured flower " of Miller.^ It is also 

 the Crocus pallidus of the fourth, and subsequent Editions of 

 the Hortus Cantabrigiensis. 



3. Crocus Stellaris. 

 We are indebted to Mr. Ha worth for the best published 

 account of this pretty Crocus ; it was not noticed by any 

 writer before he described it, for I do not consider his reference 

 of it to Parkinson's Crocus, N°. 26, " The Pale Cloth of 

 Gold Crocus," can be maintained. This account is in the 

 Paper in the Transactions of the Horticultural Society, which 

 has been already mentioned, where it is accompanied by an 

 excellent figure. It has been considered a distinct species, 

 and as such I have retained it; but I must confess that, on 

 comparison of all its essential characters with those of C. sul- 

 phureus, I find them so to correspond, that I conceive they 

 will not remain separated. The chief obvious differences 



* See Horticultural Transactions, volume 1, page 135. 

 f See Gardener's Dictionary, 7th Edition, No. 1 1. 



