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4. Teichone'ma Ker. 
1. T. Cdum'na (E.) ; scape 1-flowered usually solitary slightly 
nodding, 1. filiform compressed fun-owed recurved, spath ex- 
ceeding the tube of the cor., stjle falling short of the stam., 
etigmas bifid. — E. B. 2549. B,. ix, 354. T. Bulhocodium Sm. — 
A small plant not more than 4 in. high, with a corm. Fl. pale 
t purple or violet, yellow in the lower part within. — Sandyplaces. 
Dawlish WaiTen, Devon, Jersey and Guernsey. P. III. Iv. E. 
5. Cbo'cus Linn. 
* Scapes enveloped in a tubular sheath. 
*1. C. ver'nm (Willd.) ; 1. and fl. at the same time, spath 
simple, throat of the cor. fringed with hairs, stigma shortly 3-fid, 
lobes erect wedgeshaped jagged at the end, conn clothed with 
slender netted fibres. — E. B. 344. — Fl. violet-pui-ple. — Near 
Nottingham ; and Mendham, SufF. P. III. E. 
[C sativus (L.); 1. succeeding the Q.., spath double, throat 
bearded, stigma in 3 deep linear divisions drooping, bulb clothed 
with slender anastomosing fibres. — E. B. 343. — Fl. purple. L. 
usually appearing just before the fl. fades. — Formerly cultivated 
near S^afii-on Walden : not naturalized. P. IX. Saffron.'] 
2. C. nudijlorus (Sm.) ; 1. succeeding the fl., spath simple, 
stigma in 3 deeply laciniate divisioyis erect, corm with a mem- 
branous coat. — E. B. 491. C. speciosus Hook., E. B. S. 2752, 
not Bieb. — L. linear, appealing in March. Fl. purple. Stigmas 
only a little higher than the anthers, or rising considerably above 
them.— Meadows. P. IX. ' E. 
** Scapes naked. 
[C. hiJlSrus (Mill.) ; 1. and fl. at the same time, spath double, 
stigma longer than the stam. erect deeply trifid, divisions trun- 
cate and slightly notched at the end, corm with a membranous 
coat. — E. B. S. 2645. C. prcuco.v Haw. C. minimus Hook. — Yl. 
pale lilac with yellow and purple stripes. — In the park (site of 
old garden) at Barton, Sufi'. Not indigenous. P. IH.] 
[_C. aureus (Sib.) ; 1. and fl. together, spath sitnplii, stigtna 
shorter than the statn. shortly Z-Jid, segments truncate or slightly 
notched at the end, corm coated with compact fibres. — E. B. S. 
2646.— Fl. yellow.— With the preceding. P. HI.] 
