448 Account and Description of Spring Crocuses, $c. 



Table, will perhaps be henceforward considered a sufficient 

 specific distinction. 



C. lacteus concolor. This was first noticed in modern 

 times by Mr. Salisbury, in the Paradisus Londinensis * in 

 1808, when he described it as the variety (3. of his C. lage- 

 naeflorus ; in the succeeding year it was also introduced as 

 the same by Mr. Haworth in his Paper/t in the Transac- 

 tions of the Horticultural Society. It was likewise published 

 in 1808 by Mr. Bellenden Ker, with a Figure in the Bota- 

 nical Magazine, Tab. 1111, as C. Msesiacus, p. or Cream co- 

 loured Crocus, the Crocus luteus of this Paper being then 

 considered as the C. Msesiacus a. A singular instance of want 

 of observation in a writer usually most acute and careful. 

 The Figure in the Botanical Magazine is good ; though the 

 flower never expands as is there represented. This Crocus 

 was received into the Garden of the Society from the Botanic 

 Garden at Cambridge as Crocus coriaceus, which name I am 

 informed by Mr. Lindley was applied by him to it formerly, 

 though never published. I should have adopted this name 

 which has reference to the leathery thickness of the petals 

 but that I recollect that many years since, Mr. Haworth, 

 when he shewed me this plant in his garden at Little Chelsea, 

 though he had published it only as a variety of C. lagenae- 

 florus, then called it C. lacteus, which appellation is certainly 

 appropriate, and has the claim of priority. 



This Croqus flowers tolerably freely; it blossoms soon after 

 C. lagenseflorus, and continues to produce flowers till nearly 

 every other kind, except the late varieties of C. vernus have 



* Crocus lagenaeflorus, B. Paradisus Londinensis, page lOfi. 

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