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It has many familiar English names, as Turkey-hen- 

 flower, Guinea-hen-flower, Chequered Daffodil, and 

 Snake's-head ; from which last name, a meadow between 

 Kew and Mortlake is called Snake's-head Meadow. Some 

 call it Narcissus Caparonius, from Noel Caparon, who 

 first discovered it: he was an apothecary, then dwelling 

 in Orleans, but murdered soon after in the massacre of 

 France. The French call it le damier [the chess-board] : 

 the Italians, giglio variegato ; fritillar'm scaccheggiata 

 [chess-board fritillary]. 



Gerarde informs us that " the curious and painful herbal- 

 ist of Paris, John Robin," sent him many of the plants for 

 his garden, and that " they were greatly esteemed for the 

 beautifying of our gardens, and the bosoms of the beau- 

 tiful." 



This lily flowers in April and May. The three last 

 may be preserved and increased in the same manner as 

 the first ; only they do not take so much room, and the 

 roots will not keep so long out of the ground. If they 

 cannot conveniently be planted sooner, they should be 

 laid in sand, to prevent their shrinking. They should be 

 removed every second year ; will bear the open air ; and 

 should have just water enough to prevent drought. 



FUCHSIA. 



MYRTOIDE^. TETRANDRIA MONOGVNIA. 



So named in honour of Leonard Fuchs, a noted German botanist. 



This is a most beautiful little plant ; the leaves are of a 

 fine green ; their veins tinged with red : the flowers pen- 

 dulous, and of a brilliant scarlet. " The Scarlet Fuchsia," 

 says Mr. Martyn, " is a plant of peculiar beauty, pro- 

 ducing its rich pendant blossoms during most part of the 



