By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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It blossoms after the first period of flowering, and rather abun- 

 dantly, but not so much so as some others of the species. The 

 leaves are narrow, rather long, numerous, spreading but not 

 decumbent, and decay early. The tube of the flower is marked 

 with pale lines. The ground of the petals is white, the 

 three outer being marked with three purple stripes, of which 

 the middle one is the longest, running to the top of the 

 petal, the featherings on them are slight and do not extend 

 to the margins ; the inner petals are also marked with three 

 faint lines, less conspicuous than those on the outer petals, 

 and which extend only as far as the middle of the petal ; the 

 insides, with the exception of the yellow at bottom of the 

 whole are white, and transparent, shewing the featherings on 

 their outside. The stigmas are pale orange, longer than the 

 anthers. It produces abundance of seed. This is the kind 

 described by Mr. Ha worth in the Transactions of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society, Vol. 1, page 137, as his Crocus fragrans /3. 

 It came in one collection from Holland, with the name of 

 Cloth of Silver Crocus, but the Crocus to which that name 

 truly belongs has a netted root, and cannot therefore belong 

 to this species. 



14. C. versicolor inconspicuus. Was also a seedling raised 

 in my garden at North Mimms, probably from the Morleon. 

 The leaves are few, broadish, not long, very decumbent, and 

 decay early. It comes into flower rather earlier than the 

 Morleon, which it much resembles, except that the flowers 

 are larger, and the stripes altogether paler and less feathered. 

 The petals are obovate and concave ; the centre line on the 

 back of the outer petals is the darkest, the two side ones are 

 fainter, and there are obscure rudiments of two other lines 

 outside of those, making an appearance of five lines in all. The 



