38 

 HYBRID Narcissi 



For the very curious information conveyed in the following 

 pages, we are indebted to the Honourable and Very Rev. 

 the Dean of Manchester, whose experiments on hybridizing 

 plants have now assumed a precision and importance which 

 could scarcely have been anticipated from the early researches 

 into this subject. We particularly commend the facts here 

 detailed to the attention of those Botanists who see a genus 

 or species in any little variation from the habitual condition 

 of a plant. 



Fig. }. Narcissus, Diomedes, var. Crichtoni. Ex N. Ajace minore, (Bot. 

 Mag. 6.) polline N. Hermiones aequilimbae, Melitensis (Herb. Am. pi. 

 48.) ; scapo humili bifloro, stylo tubum superante corona incluso, fila- 

 mentis tribus £ unc. infra faucem tubi tribus medio propius insertis 

 tenuibus, antheris tenuibus semuncialibus, perianthio luteo. Genus 

 Diomedes, Haio. 

 Fig. 2. Narcissus, Ajax, var. pallidus. Ex N. Ajace minore, polline N. Ajacis 



moschati. Perianthio subconcolore pallido. 

 Fig. 3. Narcissus Spofforthiaj; pedunc. f unc. tubo || unc. limbi lac. latis 

 pallide sulphureis f unc, corona brevi \\ unc.-lata crenata plicata sub- 

 sexlobata aurantiaca medio lutescente, stylo tubum aequante, filamentis 

 adnatis, antheris tribus exclusis tribus semi-inclusis. Ex N. incompara- 

 bili v. coronce margine aurantiaco (Queltia aurantiaca, Haw.) polline N. 

 poetici v. stellaris. 

 Fig. 4. Narcissus Spofforthiae v. spurius. Ex eddem capsula cum pracedente ; 

 corona lutea subsemunciali magis angustata Iknbi laciniis angustioribus 

 1^-unciahbus. 

 Fig. 5. Narcissus, Queltia, incomparabilis ; coronse margine aurantiaco. Q. 

 aurantiaca, Haw. Ex N. Ajace pseudonarcisso v. Eboracensi, polline 

 N. poetici v. stellaris. Exeadem capsula duae cor. marg. aurant. caeterae 

 margine concolore ; Queltia aurantiaca et Q. incomparabilis, Haw. 

 Fi^ 6. Narcissus, Queltia, subconcolor; ex N. Ajace minore, polline N. poe- 

 tici v. stellaris. Tubo i unc. limbo unciali luteo, corona parnm satiira- 

 tiore subsemunciali crenata. Ex eadem capsula plures, cum duabus 

 coronse margine aurantiaco, altera perianthio et scapo majore. Genus 

 Queltia, Salisb. 



These hybrid Narcissi have been raised with many others 

 from seed at SpofForth, and are amongst those which have 

 already flowered. Eight years ago a collection of the various 



August, 1843. a 



