ing, as for instance jasminiflora between ampullacea and 

 Aytoni, as well as many others which were figured by Andrews 

 as new species from the Cape, but which will not be found 

 amongst any specimens of African plants. The cultivator 

 thought his plants would have been undervalued, if their true 

 origin had been declared, and he would have lost the monopoly. 

 It will be observed, that the three lowest figures 1, % and 

 6, belonging to three genera of Haworth, are from sister 

 flowers by the application of different pollen ; that, while fig. 5 

 and its companions, which are not figured, furnish two species 

 according to him out of one seed-pod, fig. 3 and 4 would have 

 served him for two genera out of one seed-pod. The late Mr. 

 Haworth's last words to the writer were, " I do not thank you 

 for your mules ;" the public will however perceive, that, instead 

 of confounding the Botanist as he fancied, while they embellish 

 the garden, they offer the surest test of the accuracy of scien- 

 tific divisions. It is desirable to call the attention of the hum- 

 blest cultivators, of every labourer indeed, or operative, who 

 has a spot of garden, or a ledge at his window, to the infinite 

 variety of Narcissi that maybe thus raised, and most easily in 

 pots at his window, if not exposed too much to sun and wind, 

 offering him a source of harmless and interesting amusement, 

 and perhaps a little profit and celebrity. The six anthers 

 should be carefully taken out before the flower, which is to 

 bear the seed, blows. This may be done through a slit cut in 

 the tube ; and the yellow dust from another sort must be ap- 

 plied to the point of the style. The two-flowered N. biflorus, 

 which has no ovules, may be an accidental mule, barren from 

 extreme old age (perhaps many centuries) as well as from 

 hybndity. It will be remembered, that many years ago the 

 writer asserted that Crinum amabile was a sterile mule He 

 can now state that, although it has been long introduced into 

 Jamaica and flourishes there exceedingly, it is as sterile there 

 as in the East, and has never been known to produce a seed, 

 it was found impossible to make Mr. Plant's alleged monsters 

 vegetate at Spofforth. They turned mouldy on the first appli- 

 cation of moisture, and no care could stop their decay. It is 

 to be hoped he may have been more successful with'the root 

 he reserved. — W. H. 



