By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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The flowers are largish, rather numerous, they do not grow 

 high and are nearly obovate ; the petals are short, very trans- 

 parent, broad and obovate ; the whole flower pure white, 

 without any colour. Stigmas bright orange, not small, shorter 

 than the anthers which are pale yellow. 



52. C. vernus albus minor. Blossoms rather abundantly 

 and late in the middle season. Leaves very abundant, 

 narrow, and grow upright. The flowers are small and club 

 shaped. The petals are pure white, free from any sort of 

 colour, narrow and lanceolate, forming a small flower. The 

 stigmas are orange, a little shorter than the anthers, which are 

 very pale- 



Section VII. 



Late Vernal Crocuses. The only distinguishing charac- 

 ter of this Section is the lateness of their flowering, and though 

 the varieties at present belonging to it are all dark coloured, 

 and would, were it not for the time when their blossoms are 

 produced, have been classed with the Purples ; yet as it is 

 possible that seedlings may be obtained hereafter, possessing 

 the same property of late flowering, with all the variations of 

 colouring belonging to the other Sections, it seems best to 

 separate them. 



53. C. vernus delectus. 



54. Neapolitanus. 



55. alpinus. 



56. Aprilis. 



57- tardiflorus. 



53. C. vernus delectus. Flowers tolerably abundantly. 

 Opens its blossoms the end of March, when all the preceding 

 varieties with the exception of a few only of their late flowers 

 are quite over. It is in perfection the beginning of April. The 



