By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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darker ; the petals are narrow at the top, and slightly concave ; 

 the inner petals are beautifully feathered with lilac and white, 

 their edges neatly pencilled with white. The stigmas are 

 small, yellow, equal to the anthers. This is the variety 

 figured as the Crocus Neapolitanus in the Botanical Magazine, 

 tab. 860, where it is well represented, though there seems to 

 be no good authority for considering that name as belonging 

 to it. It is called Phaeton by some of the Dutch gardeners. 



9. C. vernus maculosus. The flowers are not very abundant, 

 they come late, and remain some time. The leaves are short 

 and broad. The flowers are large and obovate ; the spathe 

 rises to the top of the tube, which is thick, and slightly marked 

 with purple ; the petals are large, broadly obovate, and con- 

 cave ; the spots at the base are pale, small, feathered, and 

 divided by two white lines ; the upper parts of both inner 

 and outer petals are blotched with purple on a lilac ground, 

 the edges of the inner petals are marked with white. The 

 stigmas are large, orange, and equal to the anthers. 



10. C. vermis turbinatas. Flowers tolerably freely and early 

 in the middle season. The leaves are short and broad. The 

 flowers stand high, are large, very truncated at top ; tube 

 purple at top ; the outer petals marked with large dark purple 

 spots, joined with the colour of the tube, and terminated with 

 very short feathered rays ; the rest of their backs and their 

 inner side are bright purple, paler towards the lower parts ; 

 the inner petals paler purple, and slightly feathered with 

 white on their edges ; all the petals at the bottom within side 

 are marked with short purple lines ; the spot at the base 

 of the inner petals is paler and smaller ; the petals rather 

 broad, but short, concave, and obtuse. Stigmas dilated, much 



