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

 Mag. G.) polline N. Hermiones scquilimbse, 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, antlieris tenuibus semuncialibus, perianthio luteo. Genus 

 Diomedes, Haw. 



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

 moschati. Perianthio subconcolore pallido. 



Fig. 3. Narcissus SpofFortliise; pedunc. f unc. tubo -i| unc. limbi lac. latis 

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

 sexlobata aurantiaca m.edio lutescente, stylo tubum sequante, filamentis 

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

 bili V. coronae margine aurantiaco (Queltia aurantiaca, Haw.) polline N. 

 poetici V. stellaris. 



Fig. 4. Narcissus SpofForthise v. spurius. Ex eddem capsulu cum preecedente ; 

 corona lutea subsemunciali magis angustata limbi laciniis angustioribus 

 l|^-uncialibus. 



Fig..*), Narcissus, Queltia, incomparabilis ; coronse margine aurantiaco. Q, 

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

 N. poetici v. stellaris. Exeadem capsula duse cor. marg. aurant. cEeterte 

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



Fig. C. Narcissus, Queltia, subconcolor ; ex N. Ajace minore, polline N. poe- 

 tici V. stellaris. Tubo ^ unc. limbo unciali luteo, corona parum satura- 

 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 



