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C R O C U S aureus.
Lesser gold-coloured Crocus.
TR IA N D R IA Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Cor. in 6 divisions, regular. Stigmas
convoluted.
Spec. Char. Filaments upwardly geniculate ; anthers
incurvedly patent, rather acute, and scarcely eraar-
ginate; rootspheroid, flat beneath, with smoothish
entire coats.
Syn. Crocus aureus. Sibthorp. FI. Grcec. v. 1 .1. 35.
where it is asked, “ anne verni, vel sativi confu-
sus ? ” both which are extremely distinct from it;
the first having entire root-coats, and the last
being autumnal.
C. reticulatus. Smith Eng. FI. 4. 263. not of
others; and confused with several distinct species.
C. lagenaeflorus. Salisb. Par. Lond. t. 106.—
C. lageniflorus, a. Tr. of Hort. Soc. v. 1. 134.
C. vernus latifolius aureus. C. Bauh. Pin. 66.
C. vernus luteus, Mesiacus flore aureo. Park.
Parad. 166. & t. 169. f . 1.
C. vernus latifolius, aureo flore. Clus. Hist. PI.
lib. 2. 206.
C. vernus Mesiacus 1. Clus. Pann. 226, 227.
cum ic.
T h i s plant we have already said was found apparently
wild in Suffolk, with that on our last Plate. The figure
above cited in Par. Lond. shows a very large garden specimen
in its early stage of blooming, before the nascent leaves
have much emerged beyond their filmy sheaths : and that