484 Account and Description of Spring Crocuses, fyc. 



which run towards the margins, and these are white ; the inner 

 petals are like the outer, but paler ; there is great variation 

 in the size and disposition of the markings. The stigmas a 

 'little longer than the anthers, of an orange colour, broad, and 

 much dilated. 



Section III. 



Spotted Vernal Crocuses, having blossoms, the outer 

 petals of which are blotched or spotted with dark purple, and 

 the other parts of the same marked with white ; the inner 

 petals having something of the same character. 



27. C. vermis dorsalis. 



28. C. Unguis. 



29. C. Unguis major. 



30. C. leucorhyncus. ■ 



27. C. vernus dorsalis. Opens its flowers the end of 

 March, and is in full perfection the beginning of April. 

 Leaves short and grow upright. The flowers are tolerably 

 abundant, very beautiful, obovate, but not large ; the tube 

 short, thick, striped at top with purple; the spathe grow- 

 ing above the tube; the outer petals broad, obovate and 

 concave, marked on the base at the outside with an obscure 

 purple feathered spot, divided in the middle by two longish 

 broad white stripes, rising high up the petals, with a dark 

 purple line between them ; the rest of the petals purple, with 

 a dark blotch near the top, but terminated by a paler mar- 

 gin, paler within, white at the base ; the inner petals a little 

 smaller and paler, feathered within and without with lilac 

 on a paler ground. The stigmas orange, thick, short, about 

 equal with the anthers, which are also short. The lateness of 



