480 Account and Description of Spring Crocuses, fyc. 



into spots on the petals; the petals narrow and long, the 

 outer ones concave, pale purple, and very pale on the sides 

 of the spots at the base ; the inner petals light purple, 

 beautifully feathered and veined with white. The stigmas 

 deeply divided, pale orange, long, and shewing themselves at 

 the top of the flower when it is closed. 



17. C. vernus plumbeus. {See Plate XI. Fig. 10.) This 

 flowers not very abundantly, but early in the middle season. 



• The leaves rather numerous, become long and grow upright. 

 The flowers fusiform and contracted at the base ; the tube 

 is marked with purple at the top ; the petals narrow, long, 

 and rather concave ; the base of the petals purple, but not 

 in spots ; the outer petals a bluish lilac, the spots at the base 

 diluted into and mixed with the colour of the petals, and 

 divided at bottom by white lines ; the inner petals within 

 and without feathered with white on lilac. The stigmas pale 

 orange, small, a little longer than the anthers. 



18. C. vernus inflates. (See Plate XI. Fig. 13.) Flowers 

 tolerably abundantly, early in the middle season. Leaves 

 few, rather broad and grow long. The flowers large, much 

 swollen out ; the tube very thick, marked with purple at the 

 top ; the petals very large, obovate, concave, and forming a 

 perfect obovate flower, they are pale at the bottom, with a 

 dark spot more feathered than usual, having a pair of white 

 lines in the middle separated by a narrow purple line, the 

 inside of the petals whitish at bottom, feathered and running 

 into the lilac colour of the upper parts. The stigmas yellow, 

 they are situated near to the top of the flower, and stand 

 above the anthers. 



19. C. vernus tulipaceus. It flowers abundantly and early, 



