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MANY splendidly printed and illustrated monographs of special genera of flowering plants have been published, but few surpass in merit or interest Mr. Maw's monograph of the species of the genus Crocus. This work, the author tells us, has pleasantly occupied his spare hours for the last eight years. In collecting the material for it, he has travelled far and wide over the crocus region; he has enlisted the services of a whole host of friends, who, on the borders of the Mediterranean, of the great Basin of the Black Sea, and along the shores of the Caspian, have collected the species peculiar to these localities, and forwarded them for culture and description to Mr. Maw. Perhaps never before has a monograph been written so entirely from the study of living plants. At the same time, no information that was to be gleaned from the dried specimens in herbaria has been neglected.
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"A Monograph of the Genus Crocus." By George Maw, F.L.S, &c. With an Appendix on the etymology of the words "Crocus" and "Saffron," fey C, C. Lacaita, M.A., M.P., F.L.S. (London: Dulau and Co., 1886.)
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The Crocus 1 . Nature 35, 348–349 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035348a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/035348a0