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Colchicum (About thirty species natives)

About thirty species, natives of Europe, West and Central Asia, and North Africa, are here included. To those described on p. 359, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. Troodii (Trood's). fl. numerous; perianth white, 1 1/2in. in diameter, the segments narrow-oblong. Autumn. l. appearing in spring, 6in. to 12in. long, 2/3in. to 1in. broad, strap-shaped, obtuse, dark green. Corm depressed-globose. Cyprus, 1886. (B. M. 6901.)