466 Account and Description of Spring Crocuses, $c. 



petals have a white ground with three broad feathered stripes, 

 the middle one is narrow below and widening to the top, the 

 side stripes are broad and feathered towards their outsides ; 

 the white space between the feathered marks is narrow. 

 The three inner petals are broader and shorter, white with a 

 feathered line, running along the whole centre nearly to the 

 top, and with two short feathered lines, paler than the middle 

 one, on each side ; the inside of the petals is white, shewing 

 the markings through, as if transparent. The stigmas are 

 deep orange, unequal, broad at the top, larger than the 

 anthers. It produces seeds sparingly. 



12. C. versicolor pectinatus, was raised from seed in my 

 Garden at North Mimms. It flowers about a week after the 

 earliest, not abundantly. The spathes are very long, rising 

 above the tube of the flower. The leaves are broad, not 

 very long or numerous, spread much and decay early. The 

 flower is lightly marked with six faint purple lines. The 

 tube of the petals are narrow, concave, obtuse, and nearly 

 equal, the ground being white, and the lower parts tinged with 

 yellow, deeper than usual, the outer petals are marked with 

 three narrow dark purple lines, from the exterior edges of 

 the outer, and the tops of the middle short featherings of the 

 same colour diverge ; the inner petals are marked with three 

 faint lines, the inside of both is white, shewing the markings 

 through. The stigmas are orange, unequal, longer than the 

 anthers, which are of small size. It seeds freely. 



13. C. versicolor Morleon. Came to me from Holland 

 many years since, with the name now attached to it; but 

 that seems to be applied without much attention to accuracy, 

 for the variety which I have called floribundus had it also. 



