present, and are probably caused by the puncture of some 
insect. N. deficiens has bright green cylindrical leaves, like 
a small jonquil; the tube is oftener erect than declined, the 
sepals obtuse with a point, and rather larger than the petals, 
the whole limb white, with a livid brownish stain at the base 
of each segment, the cup so nearly obliterated that I cannot 
distinguish its rudiments without a magnifier ; but there is 
an imperfect and often interrupted brown ridge, including 
the three sepaline anthers, which are not concealed in the 
tube; in some of the specimens only six diminutive teeth at 
the juncture of the sepals and petals. A Narcissus without a 
cup seems an anomaly, but f. 3 represents a dry specimen 
from Tangiers in Mr. Bentham's herbarium, which seems to 
me to be Parkinson's N. medio obsoletus, for it differs from 
a 3-flowered green jonquil of which I have a specimen from 
Tangiers with much slenderer segments, and a decidedly 
6-cleft crown, and also from a specimen of Hermione elegans 
from Tangiers, the 7-flowered N. serotinus of Desfontaines, 
which has larger flowers with a very shallow yellow cup. I 
cannot however say that the N. deficiens agrees sufficiently 
either with Mr. Bentham's specimen or Parkinson's descrip- 
tion to be united with the supposed N. obsoletus. There is 
a notice of an 8-flowered N. obliteratus from Mogadore, by 
Schlechtendal, which is perhaps N. elegans, or a variety 
nearly akin to it, with a failure of the cup. Narcissus defi- 
ciens very nearly meets the Pancratiform plants in Pancratium 
humile of Cavanilles, Tapeinzgle, mihi, though perhaps when 
better known it will prove to be a Lapiedra. ‘The rudiment 
of an imperfect cup or membrane is not perceptible to me in 
either without a magnifier—connecting the filaments in one, 
placed farther back in:the other. The prolongation of the 
filaments in P. humile is the most conspicuous distinction. 
N. juneifolius is a neat little plant, found in stony pas- 
tures near Avignon and Pont du Gard. There are three 
varieties, of which this is the smallest. The largest has 
sometimes three flowers in a scape. 
An exact outline from a dry specimen of the Pancratium 
humile of Cavanilles, the humblest of Pancratiform plants, is 
added, the plant being imperfectly known. The cup is almost 
obsolete in it.— W. H. 
