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COLCHICUM. versicolor. 
Clusius’s Meadow-Saffron. 
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HEXANDRIA 7Ri-v. MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Junct. Jussieu gen. 43. Div. IV. Germina plura (sepis 
tria). Capsulz totidem uniloculares, interdim basi coalite. 
Flores paniculati aut spicati. 
MELANTHACER. Brown prod. 1. 274. 
COLCHICUM. Supra fol. 541. 
ne aetna tang Sanne Renna! 
C. versicolor (uniflorum); foliis quaternis elongato-ligulatis, angustis, spira- 
libus, cinereo-virentibus, corollz hexapetalodi-partite laciniis linearibus ; 
stylo unico, stigmate subsimplici. 
Amaryllis colchiciflora. Denominatt 
missum fuit. 
Colchicum montanum minus versicolore flore. Clus. hist. 1. 201; cum ic. 
o sub qué exemplar presens a “Mosché 
dane a aaa aR a A TB a aa 
In recapitulating the species of this genus in a preceding 
article (541) of this publication, we had attributed the 
synonym from Clusius belonging to the plant before us, to 
the Mrerenvera Bulbocodium of the Liliacées, where it is 
represented from a dried sample; but we are convinced 
that the plant of the Liliacées is the Coucuicum montanum 
hispanicum of Clusius, and. consequently, in so far as a syn- 
onym can decide the point, the Concuicum montanum of 
Linneus. A very distinct species from the present. . 
The drawing of versicolor was taken at Mr. .Griffin’s 
garden, South Lambeth, where the bulb had been obtained 
from Moscow, under the appellation of Amaryuis colchici- 
fora, and is quite new to our collections. It flowered in the 
autumn, when the leaves began to appear above the coat- 
ing of the bulb, in the way shown in our drawing and in 
the figure in Clusius’s work, though they did not attain 
their full growth before the following spring. The full- 
grown ones were not known to Clusius, to whom the draw- 
ing of the plant introduced in his valuable history seems 
‘to have been communicated by his correspondent Plateau of 
Tournay, its original cultivator. 
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