TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Iris. 
95 
(C. nudiflo'rus. Tube of the blossom very long, leafless. Summit in 
three deeply laciniated segments, enclosed within the blossom. 
E. Bot. 
E. Bot. 491. 
This new species of Crocus appears first to have been clearly ascertained by 
the Rev. Mr. Beecher, of Southwell, Nottinghamshire, to belong to the 
British Flora, and by whom it was found in great profusion between 
Nottingham Castle and the river Trent, growing there intermixed with 
C. vernus. It is distinguished from either of the preceding species by the 
segments of the summit being deeply subdivided into from seven to 
twelve, generally nine, narrow linear lobes. The flowers, perfectly desti¬ 
tute of leaves, are in perfection early in October, and fade before the end 
of that month. The leaves do not begin to appear till some time in De¬ 
cember, and are more erect than those of the other species, their margins 
scarcely revolute, colour paler, and their ends not decayed. E. Bot. 
Naked-flowering Crocus. It has since been discovered by Mr. Shep¬ 
herd, Curator of the Liverpool Botanic Garden, a mile and a half 
from Liverpool on the road to Allerton. Pastures near Halifax. Rev. 
W. Wood. Bot. Guide. Shut-end, near Dudley. Rev. W. T. Bree. 
Pigwell fields and Lammas fields, Warwick. Mr. Perry, in Purton. 
P. Oct. E.) 
(C. reticula'tus. Stigma within the flower, in three obtuse, undivided 
segments; three outer segments of the corolla recurved ; coat of 
the bulb strongly reticulated. 
C. susianus. Curt. Mag. 652. Smaller than "any other of our wild species. 
Bloss. whitish, pale blue, or yellow. Described by Smith in Eng. FI. as 
having been found wild by Mr. Dawson Turner, in Barton Park, Suffolk. 
P. March. E.) 
FRIS. # Bloss. with six divisions, unequal, every other segment 
bent back as if jointed : Summits petal-like, two-lipped, 
edges at the base turned in. 
bringeth foorth yellow flowers, was sent unto me from Robinus of Paris, that painfull 
and most curious searcher of Simples.” p. 126. ( t( Of all the properties of plants,” 
remarks the Rev. G. White, “none seems more strange than their different periods of 
blossoming, especially when they happen to be congenerous, and indeed scarcely to be 
distinguished specifically, as in the Vernal and Autumnal Crocus. This circumstance 
is one of the wonders of creation, little noticed, because a common occurrence ; yet 
ought not to be overlooked on account of its being familiar, since it would be as difficult 
to be explained as the most stupendous phenomenon in nature.” 
“ Say, what impels, amidst surrounding snow 
Congeal’d, the Crocus’ flamy bud to glow ? 
Say; what retards, amidst the summer’s blaze, 
Th’ autumnal bulb, till pale, declining days ? 
The God of Seasons, whose pervading power 
Controls the sun, or sheds the fleecy shower :—■ 
He bids each flower his quickening word obey, 
Or to each lingering bloom enjoins delay.” E.) 
* (From the brilliancy of its colours and the graceful curve of its petals emulating the 
arch of Iris or the rain-bow. E.) 
