Note 2466 — I.—PHÆNOGAMOUS OR FLOWERING PLANTS. (continued 20)
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Chappellier has pointed out that Crocus sativus L. is unknown in a wild state, and that it hardly ever produces seed even though artificially fertilized; and has argued from these facts that it is probably a hybrid.—Bulletin de la Soc. bot. de France, xx. (1853) 191.