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a one was described by the late Professor Morren*. The de- 

 viation from the ordinary alternate arrangement in the ease of 

 these Narcissi, and more especially in the case of that form called 

 JV". Eystettensis, arises from a different cause from that to which 

 the appearances of the Camellias previously referred to are attri- 

 butable. "While in the Camellia the superposition is, as we have 

 seen, apparent rather than real, in the Narcissi there is a true super- 

 position of parts. The flower in question, N. Eystettensis, has a 



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1664), mentions the plant in question under the name " Gefullt' Jacobstablen," 

 and as Narcissus silvestris multiplex calyce carens. 



Parkinson, in his Paradisus (1629), p. 105 and p. 107, fig. 4, speaks of it as 

 "Pseudo Narcissus gallic us minor Jlore pleno, or the lesser French double 

 bastard daffodil/' and states that it bears " one faire double flower thereon, of a 

 pale yellow or lemon-colour, consisting of six rowes of leaves, every one grow- 

 ing smaller than other unto the middle, and so set and placed, that every leafe 

 of the flower doth stand directly almost in all, one upon or before another unto 

 the middle, where the leaves are smallest, the outermost being the greatest, which 

 maketh the flower seeme the more beautifull ; this and the greater kindc hath 

 no trunke [corona] or shew of anything in the middle, as all or most of the 

 other former bastard daffodils have, but are flowers wholly composed of leaves 

 standing double even to the middle." Further on it is added that this " French 

 double kinde [grows] about Orleance in France, where it is said to grow plen- 

 tifully and is most usually called ' Eobinus his Daffodill/ " The modern French 

 Floras make no mention of the plant in a wild state. Parkinson, * Paradisus/ 

 p. 89, f. 6, and p. 91, also alludes to the double white form already mentioned 

 as " bearing one faire double snow white flower, very like in the fashion unto 

 the pale yellow double Daffodill or bastard Daffodill of Eobinus * * * for it is 

 in the like manner laid open flat, and composed of six rowes of leaves, every rowe 

 lying in order just opposite or one before another, etc." The name he gives to 

 this is Narcissus alhas flore pleno Virginianus, or the double white Daffodill of 

 Virginia. If a Narcissus at all, it is probably a form of N. poeticus. 



J. Bauhin, * Historia Plant. Universalis ' (1651), p. 594, speaks of the plant now 

 known as N. Eystettensis as Bulbocodium flore pleno, and repeats the figure of 

 Dodomeus and Lobelius. 



In Hales's ' Eden, or a compleat body of Gardening ' (1757), the present plant 

 is described and figured as the Double Lemon Daffodill, the author giving an 

 original illustration and avoiding the error of some of his predecessors, who sup- 

 posed it to be a wild species, instead of an accidental monstrous condition per- 

 petuated by cultivation. Philip Miller makes no mention of this variety in the 

 eighth edition of his celebrated Dictionary. 



* Bull. Acad. Hoy. Belg. xx. pt. 2, p. 272, c. tab. The author here cited 

 says, M L 'opposition des organes pStaloides est ici de toute evidence ; de sorte 

 que si Ton admet le principe de ;M. Auguste de St.-IIilaire, ees cinq perianths 

 et ces cinq couronnes emboites les uns dans les autres seraient les resultats non 

 de multiplications, mais bien de vrais dedoublements." See also Sweert, * Hon- 

 lcgiwiT (1641), t. 26. 



