known Narcissi was made there, for the completion of an 

 arrangement of Amaryllidacese; and, from a desire of seeing 

 the fruit of the intermediate kinds which formed the genera 

 Queltia, Diomedes, Philogyne, Tros, Schisanthes, and the 

 yellow portion of Helena of Haworth, application was made 

 for seed to various cultivators, and it was found that no one 

 had ever known a seed to have been produced bv any one of 

 the above-mentioned plants. The white-limbed species of 

 Haworth's Helena are small Italian local varieties of N. poe- 

 ticus, from which by the pollen of jonquill it is presumed that 

 Uie sterile tenuior and planicorona may have been produced. 

 I he seeds described, as those of N. gracilis, (Herbert Am. 

 316.) proved to be jonquill seeds erroneously communicated 

 by the cultivator. On further investigation of the subject it 

 appeared that, although most of these plants had been culti- 

 vated above 200 years, their places of abode were unknown 

 to Clusms and Parkinson, and a suspicion arose that they 

 were artificial breeds which some cultivator had imposed 

 upon the public as mountain plants above two centuries ago, 

 and an advertisement, stating that suspicion, and requesting 

 a communication of their seeds, was published by the author; 

 and the seed of N. odorus being named in the list of seeds in 

 the bot. gard. at Naples, application was made to Prof. Tenore 

 tor some. The result has been that, although some gentle- 

 men in remote parts have kindly contributed bulbs of different 

 sorts, no seed of any such Narcissus has been sent. Prof, 

 lenore answered that, although named in the list, N. odorus 

 bore no seed at Naples,* and Mons. Deslongchamps, though, 

 amidst the information which he obligingly G gave concerning 

 the trench Narcissi, he asserted that it was certainly indige- 

 nous m France, admitted that he had never heard of its pro- 

 ducing seed. The variety also, found in Madeira, grows 

 P,rf l T Ut ^V^h are not indigenous, and befrs no 

 seed. In the spring before the publication of Amaryllidace*, 



seed tv A N a !!? comm " nicati on from Pr. Tenore alludes to the production of 

 doe, ™t «™ ♦ I SOmC f ° mer P eriod in the Neapolitan garden, but it 

 fied hv ln« P r ar n aVG bee \!°™> ™ ^ it clear whether the fact is certi- 

 W thJnnnpn V eCOlle ?- 0n ' He m ^ ests that ifc mi S ht ha ™ been produced 

 states tW P ° n T ° f lt8 Parent8 ' lf the P lant is a * hybrid. He likewise 

 SI Imperatomanus does not grow on the hedge-banks near 



Naples, and never descends lower than 2000 feet above the sea W. H. 



