478 Account and Description of Spring Crocuses, fyc. 



elevated, pale orange. This variety has a great disposition 

 to produce eight petals and four anthers ; I have also seen it 

 with ten petals, looking like a double flower. 



11. C. vermis clavatus. Flowers tolerably abundant and 

 early. Leaves very broad and short. It has a large tall 

 club-shaped lilac flower; the tube long, pale purple, or 

 lilac, with faint lines; the petals particularly wide at top, 

 and marked at top with dark purple feathered spots, they 

 are paler on the middle and lower parts, the spots at the 

 base are not very conspicuous, and are divided by two white 

 lines ; the inner petals are indistinctly feathered, and are 

 pale at the bottom. The stigmas very large,, orange, and 

 elevated above the anthers. The flowers of this are the 

 largest of all next to the variety called Sabini. 



1 2. C. vernus violaceus. Produces flowers abundantly and 

 early. The leaves are moderately broad, rather numerous. 

 The whole flower externally a rich lilac, with dark purple fea- 

 thered spots at the base ; internally at the bottom pale, with 

 slight featherings ; it is rather fusiform than obovate ; the 

 tube at top purple ; the petals concave, obtuse at the top ; 

 the inner petals paler and feathered at the edges with white ; 

 the spots at the back of the outer petals are not very different 

 from the colour of the other parts. The stigmas pale orange, 

 not large, elevated above the anthers. 



13. C. vernus dubius. Flowers tolerably abundantly, and 

 remains in blossom into April. The leaves are numerous, 

 narrow, and long. The flowers are tall, fusiform, and hand- 

 some; the tube slightly purplish at top, running down- 

 wards with fine lines, and rising upwards in undefined spots 

 into the petals ; the outer petals are long and lanceolate, 



