20. IRIDEiE. 132. Crocus. 
195 
PL end. ph. 
Fields and pastures; perennial; September to Novem- 
ber : also cultivated. 
Flowers pale blue, streaked with violet; tube yellow; 
spathe 2-valved ; leaves fringed, come out after the flower, 
and remain all the winter . — Stigmata cordial. 
c. Lobes of the style many cut; spathe 1 -leafed; 
flowers autumnal , appearing before the leaves . 
3. Crocus nudiflorus, Naked saffron » 
Tunics of the combus membranaceous, filamentous. 
Crocus montanus aulumnalis, Ger. em. 154,6. 
Colchicum commune, Deering Nott. 57. 
Crocus nudiflorus, Engl. Bot. 491. 
Crocus multifldus, Ramond Bull, de S. P. 41. 
Crocus medius j 6, Allioni Add. FI. Ped. 39. 
Meadows; perennial; October. 
Lobes of the styles 7 to 12-cut, cuts linear; leaves appear 
in December, upright; edge scarcely revolute; not gan- 
1 at the tips ; flowers naked, purple violet ; fruits in 
Tube of the perigonium very short ; limb large, 6-cut, 
regular ; lobes equal ; filaments upright, short, pubescent, 
inserted at the mouth of the tube; anthers connivent; stig- 
mata 3-cut, lobes 2-parted, linear, spreading ; capsule 
3-sided ; seeds many, rounded.— -Combus ovate, conical ; base 
capillary (with a fusiform root); tunicks crustaceous, smooth; 
toothed at the tip; sheath 2-valved, lanceolate, membra- 
naceous ; leaves mostly 4, slender, linear, ribbed, thickest 
in the middle ; scape upright, 1 or 2-flowered ; spathe 
2-valve, lanceolate, acute, glumaceous, edge membrana- 
ceous ; flowers terminal, sessile, blue. 
Trichomema parviflorum . Small wild-saffron . 
Leaves linear, compressed ; lobes of the perigonium lan- 
ceolate, I'etuse ; inner one scarcely broader than the outer ; 
stigma revolute. 
Crocus vernns minor, Ger.em. 152. 
Crocus Bulbocodium, Lin. S. P. 36 ? 
Romulea, Miller Figures , 24. 
Ixia Bulbocodium, Engl. Bot. 2549. 
Ixia Bulbocodium j8, De Cand. Syn. FI. Gall . 2000. 
Ixia parviflora, Salisb. Prod. 34. 
Hills in Guernsey ; perennial ; May. 
ay. 
II. 133. TRICHOMEMA. Kerr. 
JVild-saffron . 
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