492 Account and Description of Spring Crocuses, fyc. 



and spreading. The flowers of moderate size ; the top of the 

 tube deep purple, as well as the bottom of the petals ; the 

 spots at the bottom of the petals ending in points ; petals 

 lanceolate, upright, scarcely concave ; the backs of the outer 

 petals dullish white, obscurely feathered ; their inside, as well 

 as both sides of the inner petals, elegantly striped with pale 

 lilac lines on white ground. Stigmas orange, very short, much 

 below the anthers. 



45. C. vernus obesus. Flowers freely and late in the middle 

 season. Leaves numerous, grow long, and spread wide. 

 Spathe reaching high up the tube ; the tube of the flower 

 thick, and stained with rich purple, which colouring is united 

 with the purple spots of the petals ; the petals are short, 

 blunt, and concave, thin in texture, the outer larger than the 

 inner ; the bases of the petals are marked with large purple 

 spots, which in the outer petals are terminated by points or 

 rays ; the rest of the petals being grayish white ; on the backs 

 of the inner petals the spots are terminated by lines which 

 extend up the petals ; the inside of all the petals are marked 

 by narrow light purple lines, extending over them to nearly 

 their tops and edges. The stigmas orange, a little shorter 

 than the anthers. 



Section VI. 



White Vernal Crocuses, having blossoms with the ex- 

 ternal parts of the outer petals white (except the base, 

 which in some is marked with purple,) the internal parts of 

 the same, and the inner petals, being either striped with 

 narrow stripes on white ground, or white. 



47. C Andersonii. 



