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NARCISSUS Sabini. 

 Mr. Sahme^s Narcissus. 



HEXANDRIA MOIfOGYlflA. 



Nat. ord. Amartixidb£. Brown prod. vol. 1 

 NARCISSm. 8mri vol. 2. fol 128. 



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TS. Sabittt, spaChft uniflore, scapo atoipite, neetaario jcalunmftri eracto pK«ato 

 ax»o petaUp iubricatis patentibus brevior6, stylo c*luviHe aequali anthe- 

 , ris pauld lobgiore, tubo petalis sub^quali. 

 '_ Folia panea, paUidi viridia, latitucma. Scapus ancept^ ea$uUicuUUtu. 

 Fiorts (omam, cemut. Peduneulus ieaquhmciatis, erectut. ■Qermenpar- 

 «im et tubus cofolls t^Undrmxif ntbii^nidibuiarett raiatnd tlrideM, petoiU 

 ^uales, cum peduneulo angubm rectum Jormanteg. Petala albida, latOt 

 *nbricata, nitida, ovata, cum nectario reetangvlaTia, directione tubirregulari. 

 Nectariam htetim, pHeatum, et^umnare, margme eronmi, 9 finest lonffum, 

 petttlu i bremna. Stamina irenora, stvlua neoUirie MwHa. Sabina MSS. 



Among the many difierent Narcissi whieh flowered last 

 spring in the garden of the Horticultural iSociety, we' no- 

 ticed two, wiiich Appealed not cmly undescHiied, but ex- 

 ceedingly Demarlcablje in genei»l faabk. They were, part 4>f 

 an extensive aurangement of har<fy bulbs, .the basis of which 

 was a coUeetion preaented to the Society i^ Mr. SaUme, its 

 Secretary ; a collection wfai<^ was origifi^y formed, by 

 bijoo, in his gsu^n at North Mimms, by many years re- 

 search, and 'which has been materially increased since it 

 caute into the possession of the Society. 



Of one of these the opposite figure 4s from a drawing we 

 made upon the spot. We have named it after the gentle- 

 man to whom we and the public are indebted for the pos- 

 sesion of it, and from whose extensive acquaintance with the 

 genus we have derived our knowledge of the characteristic 

 marks by which it is distingnished from its congeners. Its 

 petals are those of N. hicohr ; its tube of N. incompank- 

 UUs; and its nectary of the last-mentioned species, be- 

 come columnar and elongated ; or of N. hicohr sifOltened. 

 Tliis species may therefore be considered to connect N. iw- 

 comparahiUs and N. bicohry and consequently Mr. Salis- 

 bury's genera QuBi/nA and Ajax. Roots of it were origi- 



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