yellow: pollen yellow. Germen hairy. Style short,
erect. Stigma large, capitate, papillose, covering the
short style, like an umbrella. pM ' ■«B B
The present plant is generally confused with G. mons-
peliensis in our gardens, though no two plants need be
more distinct, and it is much nearer related to C. fiir-
sutus. It is a native of Crete, as we have ascertained
by fine specimens in Mr. Lambert’s Herbarium received
from that country, and also marked C. monspe-
liensis: but a comparison with our figure ot that species
or the figure in the Flora Graeca, will easily
decide the difference; we do not know when the Present
plant was introduced, but it was most probably
brought by Dr. Sibthorp on his return from Greece.
We have not yet been fortunate enough to find
C creticus in any collection that we have visited, and
fear that it is quite lost to the country; but it may
probably still exist in some collection ; should any ot
our Subscribers or their friends possess the plant, we
should feel much obliged for specimens of it when in
flower, the plant now known in Nurseries by that
name being C.purpureus.
As the present plant is a native of Crete, it requires
a little protection in severe frosty weather, either the
covering of a mat, or to be protected m a frame, thriving
well in a light sandy soil, and may be increased by
seeds, or young cuttings planted under hand-glasses
in August or September, will soon strike root.
Our drawing was made at the Nursery of Messrs.
Whitley, Brames, and Milne, near Parsons Green,
Fulham.