48G Account and Description of Spring Crocuses, $c. 



below, but only a tinge of purple. The stigmas orange, and 

 shorter than the anthers. 



Section IV. 



Striped Vernal Crocuses, having blossoms,in which both 

 the inner and outer petals are regularly striped or feathered. 



31. C. vermis pulchellus. 



32. C. lineatus. 



33. C. striatus. 



31. C. vermis pulchellus. (See Plate 11, Fig. 19.) A seed- 

 ling of my own raising. Flowers early in the middle season. 

 Leaves not abundant, of a moderate breadth, being rather 

 long, and grow upright. The flowers stand very high (the 

 highest of any) on the tube, and are not produced in great 

 numbers, they are fusiform ; the tube very long, marked with 

 six faint lines running into the centre of the petals; the 

 petals lanceolate, narrow, folding in on the sides, contracted 

 at the top, of a very delicate lilac, at the bottom paler or 

 nearly white ; the whole neatly marked at the bottom with 

 lines of lilac, and above by pale featherings extending over the 

 whole surface ; the backs of the outer petals are more con- 

 spicuously marked than the others ; the inside of all the 

 petals lightly feathered. The stigmas orange, standing a little 

 above the anthers. 



32. C. vernus lineatus. Flowers early in the middle season, 

 not plentifully. The leaves are rather spreading and narrow. 

 Flowers middle sized; the whole of them including the tube 

 beautifully striped and feathered with pale lilac on a paler 

 ground ; the stripings on the tube, and just above it, darkest ; 

 the petals oblong, slightly concave and long; at the bases of 



