Lirioyame. Cl. 6. Spathacee. Orv. 3. Narctssex. 107 
hardy ornamental Plants, and though will succeed even in a sandy 
dry soil, are still bolder and stronger in moistloam. Of P. Conspicua 
no modern figure has yet been published so good as that in Theatrum 
et by L’ 
Flore, t. 22. it is not desc y L’Ectusz or dst. and the 
oldest. specimen I have in age d thered at 
Eltham in 1720, not er afte ter it had ben n introduced [e Consul 
SHERARD, probably from some de of the iterranean eoast, for 
LasanLE found this species growing wild in ipe Island of Poroa: 
but it is not indigenous that I can ascertain in the north of Spai 
though it is unquestionably the Narcissus Odorus of Linné’ ie 
barium I cannot retain so absurd a name; for it has very little r- 
stella by Niconas Lg Quxrr, and I received Bulbs of it brought by 
r. RICHARD RAMSDEN BnawLEY of Leeds, from some part of Spain, 
who went there to buy wool ; also Narcissus Trilobus of LixNÉ's 
Herb ut from what Plant he added the contradictory descrip- 
tion under the latter in Species Plantarum, I cann Lo o4 
Heminalis yet red in either of those popular and 
ost useful works, the e, Botanical Regis 
though often brought to Covent garden for nosegays, by the market 
gardeners ; its lanceolate than Calathina, 
lobed ; this 
species grows wild in Dauphiné and Switzerland. Hitherto I have 
always reluctantly left the Jonquils in the same Genus with the 
Tazettas of Lixx&, being partly reconciled to this unnatural junction, 
by one or two Species which have possibly sprang from an adulterous 
him of those halcyon days, when he repeated “ Tityre tu patule 
recubans sub icm Fagi.” Prasiteles sends up a naked Peduncle 
late in autumn before the Leaves; it has from one to four Flowers 
Roeque and Gibraltar, brought several hundred here from 
thence, some of which are still dragging on a wretched existence for 
want of a moist soil and warmer Climate. Argenope I have not 
been so fortunate as to see living, but from DzsroxrAINE's figure its 
Flowers seem erect, and if so, they differ in that respect from all 
the rest of the Order; they are white, and the specific name of Sero- 
