chatus minor, N. candidissimus of Red.), I obtained seed 

 both from it and A. minor by the pollen of fig. 3. The pollen 

 of N. montanus however readily fertilizes Ajax and Narcissus. 

 N. dubius in its wild state is two or three-flowered, and in a 

 weak one-flowered state was the N. pumilus of lledoute, of 

 which no trace can now be discovered. 



I have flowered also the produce of a yellow Ajax by 

 jonquill raised by J. T. Alcock, Esq. which had precisely the 

 foliage and flower of N. odorus v. calathinus minor, Am. 314, 

 which variety (and not the larger as there stated) is the Cam- 

 pernelli of Haworth. I have raised younger plants of like 

 breed from various sorts of Ajax, shewing the foliage of odo- 

 rus, which have not yet flowered. I have also flowered what 

 I may call N. Ajax semiqueltia, a single seedling from A. 

 pseudonarcissus v. Eboraccnsis by pollen of Q. incomparabilis, 

 a very neat Ajax-like plant, of which the cup is rather ventri- 

 cose below, and compressed about the middle, with a regular 

 crenate margin, and of the filaments three are inserted just 

 below the middle, and three lower, much as in N. Sabini, 

 which I believe to be a cross between Q. incomparabilis alba 

 and Ajax tubseflorus, with which last it agrees in the superior 

 breadth of its leaves, and the roundness of its seed-pod. N. 

 Sabini is naturally barren, but I have seedlings from it by N. 

 poeticus. The pollen of Narcissi cultivated long by offsets 

 becomes obsolete and sterile, and I can obtain no produce 

 from pollen of Soleil d'or of the Gardens, Bazelman, double 

 Roman, oricntalis, &;c. ; but taking proper precautions to 

 avoid exposure to strong sunshine, or high temperature, I can 

 obtain seed from every flower of Ajax minor, N. poeticus stel- 

 laris, and other free-seeding species, by any other Narcissus 

 which has not become sterile by age. 



The Ganymedes are nearly sterile, probably through 

 long cultivation by offsets, and I have no certain cross from 

 them, but the plant, which has been named N. cyclamineus 

 from a figure Rudb. Theat. flor. 20, was probably raised be- 

 tween a Ganymede and Ajax, though it has been long lost. 

 I have failed in every attempt to cross Corbularia with the 

 Narcissi, and I believe it to be a true genus distinguished by 

 assurgent anthers. A gentleman has just informed me that, 

 operating at my request, he has a pod of Corbularia in pro- 



