By Joseph Sabtne, Esq. 



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in the sun; the outer narrowest. The anthers are placed 

 low in the flower, they are the same colour as the petals, 

 long, pointed at the top, and spreading wide ; the stigmas 

 are yellow, much shorter than the anthers. I have not ob- 

 served this variety to produce seed.. The roots are rather 

 large, even, not angular, their skin resembling that of C. 

 luteus, but less striated. 



This was figured in 1808, in the Paradisus Londinensis, 

 tab. 106, with the name of C. lagenaeflorus, but it was there 

 made the variety y. of the species, whilst the plant which is 

 described hereafter as C. lacteus, is taken as the type of the 

 • species. Mr. Ha worth in the succeeding year described * 

 it as C. lagenaeflorus a. The figure in the Paradisus Lon- 

 dinensis is very good, except that the anthers are too dark, 

 and the flower not sufficiently high coloured. 



I believe that this is a very old inhabitant of our Gardens ; 

 it is difficult to preserve and is consequently rare. There is 

 a difference in the hardiness and consequent time of flowering 

 in some roots which I have possessed, but not of sufficient 

 importance to distinguish them as varieties. Those that flower 

 freely should be selected for cultivation. 



5. Crocus luteus. Common Yellow Crocus. 

 This is the most common Crocus cultivated, and is generally 

 known by the name of the Dutch Yellow Crocus, it has been 

 many years in cultivation, but I doubt whether it is described 

 by any of the older writers, and consequently conjecture that 

 it must have been introduced since their time. The Yellow 

 Crocuses of the ancient Botanists, whose synonyms have been 

 • Horticultural Transactions, vol. 1, page 134. 



