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individuals which it has become the fashion to call species, 
are varieties capable of being so distinguished. This, we 
have reason to know, is also the opinion of Mr. Sabine, 
who has probably examined à greater number of plants 
of this genus than any other person. It will also, 
we think, be decided, that, in most instances, Mr. Ha- 
worth’s genera are the species, and such of the same inge- 
nious writer's species as can be distinguished’ from each 
other the varieties of Narcissus. - 
Our drawing was made in the garden of the Horticultu- 
ral Society in the middle of last May. The plant is hardier 
than the common Jonquil, and an elegant ornament of 
the flower-garden. 
A slender erect plant, 1 to 13 foot high. Leaves erect, 
Shorter than the scape, linear, half-rounded, channelled, 
obtuse, smooth above, beneath closely striated, yellowish 
green. Scape rounded, somewhat compressed, fistular, at- 
tenuated upwards, 1-2-flowered. Spathe 14 inch long, 
membranous, l-leaved, erect, split on one side for two 
thirds of its length. Flower-stalk two inches long, slender, 
on one side flat, on the other convex. Flowers subcernuous, 
yellow, with a faint smell, with a greenish cylindrical tube 
a little compressed at the end, and twice as long as the 
limb ; segments spreading, flattish, oval, imbricated at the 
base, the outer broader with a little white point, the inner 
a little involute at the edge. Corona spreading, short, cup- 
shaped, at least four times as short as the segments, a little 
Jobed and plaited, of a rather deeper yellow than the seg- 
ments. Upper row of stamens inserted somewhat within 
the tube, their anthers spreading, subsessile, the lower row 
with longer anthers, the tips of which are as high up as the 
bases of the others. Ovary oval, 3-cornered, the sides for- 
rowed ; cells inflated ; ovules many. Style filiform, as long 
as the tube, a little shorter than the upper row of anthers, 
fistulous. Stigma small, 3-lobed, pervious in the middle. 
` J. L.. 
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