_ The species is probably native of the South East pro- 
vinces of the Russian dominions, and of the Levant; but 
has never been adopted in any general system, being pro- 
bably unknown to any botanist, except through the figure 
we have cited. 
_ In Coxcuicum the styles are generally far or entirely 
disunited, sometimes united nearly to the top, as in Bulbo- 
codium, sometimes quite to the top where they end in a 
nearly simple point, as in the present species. 
The separation of Butpocopium and MsrenpERa from 
Coxcuicum, is in our view not only inexpedient, but worse. 
The habit of the three is peculiar to themselves, and so far 
similar, as to differ in no greater degree than to illustrate 
the near transitions of species so palpably akin as in our 
apprehension to constitute a useful genus. 
The corolla of versicolor separates finally for its whole 
length into six narrow petallike segments, at the top of the 
ungues of which the short filaments are inserted. 
We subjoin an amended enumeration of the species, 
of which complete samples are seldom found in herba- 
riums. The inflorescence and foliage being generally pro- 
duced at far distant intervals, one or the other seems always 
to have escaped the collector. 
nee eee 
COLCHICUM. 
versicolor, Nob. CoLcHicum montanum minus versicolore flore. Clus. 
hist. 1. 200. cum ie. 
Bulbocodium. Nob. in Curtis’s magaz. fol. vers. 1028. ButLBocoprum ver- 
num. COurtis’s magaz. 153. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 62. 
montanum, Lin. sp. pl. ed. 1. 1. 312: Willd. sp. pl. 2.273. Mrrgn- 
DERA Bulbocodium. Redouté Liliae. 25. Coicnicum 
montanum. Clus. hist. 1. 200. 
arenarium. Supra fol. 541. 
alpinum. Redouté liliac. 8. 467. 
yariegatum, Curtis’s magaz. 1028. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 273. 
autumnale. Engl. bot. 133. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 272. 
polyanthon. Nob. in Curtis’s magaz. fol. vers. 1028. CoLcHicuM panno- 
nicum. Clus. hist. 1. 199. 
byzantinum. Nob, in Curtis’s magaz. 1122. Clus. hist. 1. 199, 200. 
