i t ; but supposing, at the time, it would ultimately prove to be
a distinct species. In the Seventh Volume of the Horticultural
Transactions, Mr. Sabine adopted that name, and
gave a figure of the plant in a magnificent and beautiful
gToup of other species and varieties of Crocus, cultivated in
the Garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick.
Few plants have had their history more confused than
the present. It is the Crocus luteus of Roemer and Shultes’s
Systema Yegetab. y. l. p. 368, but blended with at least two
other species, which it would require more than our limited
space w p admit to clear up. Indeed, our plant has not been
well understood by any authors we have consulted, except
Salisbury and Sabine; who have also described its present
beautiful variety ß.
These plants are natives of Moesia, a country of Turkey in
Europe, and have been cultivated in England ever since the
days of Parkinson ; but at present they are very rare in our
collections, flowering rather after the middle season of the
Spring Crocuses, and by far less freely than most of them;
the pencilled variety being still later than the cream-co-
lourp kind. They prefer a light soil, and open situation in
toe Garden ; requiring to be taken up, and transplanted once
m three years, singly, at about two inches apart, and rather
more m depth ; after which, in the following Spring, their
soittoued, and remarkably pencilled flowers, will make a
good appearance, if planted in patches, of a score roots or
more, intermingled with other vernal plants. A. H. H.
1. Th e Stamens. 2 . The S ty le . 3. Th e same magnified.
E n R A T uM .-O n the opposite side o f page 191, lin e 4 , after the word tliat, add, h .