PREFACE. 
7 EE 
Is the year 1800 the Linnzan Society of London 
. published a paper of the author's, written in 1799, 
on such species of Narcissi as he was at that pe- 
riod aequainted with. And in his Miscel/anea 
Naturalia, published in 1803, four more species 
were added to those before enumerated ; and also 
ten further, in 1812, in the Appendix to his Sy- 
nopsis Plantarum Succulentarum. 
It is the intention of the following pages to re- 
view the whole; amend their characters, as far as 
practicable; and to add to the former species, all 
the remaining ones that have, up to this period, 
occurred to the author, in the gardens of Great 
Britain, or elsewhere; dividing the whole, not as 
heretofore into sections, from the variations in 
the structure of their corolle, but into distinct 
genera; chiefly from the habit and external ap- 
pearance of those corolle, and the varying inser- 
tions of their various stamina, 
This, indeed, has already been done—at least 
as far as concerns the mere generie names, (which 
are here adopted) in the Transactions of the Hor- 
