PSEUDO-NARCISSUS totus albus. Hort. Eyfi. Fern. Ord. 2. 



fol. 2. fig. 2' 



(a) coronae margine criipula erofo-dentata. G. 



@) PSEUDO-NARCISSUS tubo hexangulari. Park. Par. 



U 101. / 5. 

 ( y ) PSEUDO-NARCISSUS tubo quafi abfciffo. Id. I. 107. 



In fpecics evidently taken up from figures, often defective, 

 in which diftinft ones have been confounded together as 

 fynonymous to each other, then trufted to the mercy of a 

 fhort phrafe by way of defcription, it is not a very eafy thing to 

 fay for certain which were the precife plants intended by the 

 author as his ftandards. Such feems to be the cafe in the pre- 

 fent inftance ; for this is certainly one of the plants called in by 

 Linn/eus to his mo) 'chat 'us ; but whether fome other of his 

 fynonyms may not be the plant intended we are at a lofs to fay. 

 Is this fpecies really diftinft: from bt color ? Are the fynonyms 

 added as varieties really plants of the fame fpecies ? we have 

 not yet met with more than this one of them in any of our col- 

 lections. Mofchatus has efcaped the Horttts Kewenjis, nor have 

 we ever feen a figure of it in any recent work. Differs from 

 licolor in having a crown more truly cylindric, lefs cleft and 

 not fo widely or far patent ; from both that and Pfeudo-Narcijfus, 

 by its drooping flower, and from the latter by its longer crown 

 and ftamens reaching only to about the middle of that ; from 

 both again in colour and fcent. The pedicle is curved and en- 

 veloped by the fpathe. We fuppofe it has received its name 

 from fome of the varieties having been defcribed by the old 

 Botanifts as pofTefling flowers ** cum mofcari odore." 



This has little fcent of any fort ; but what it has is 

 pleafant, fomewhat like ginger, and not in the leaft refembling 

 that of mu(k. Blooms early in April. Hardy. 



Our drawing was taken at the Botanic-Garden, Brompton. G. 



E R RA r A. 



No. 918, 1. 19, ante " complanatis" infere " lolis extetiuatm.' 

 No. 919, 1. 18, pro " toto" lege ,c tota." 



