observed that in the specimens from the garden at Antibes, the crown 
of the corolla is entire, while it is lobed in those from Mont Coudon; 
I find that specimens of this plant in the Herbarium of M. J. Gay ex- 
hibit similar varieties. Thus a specimen from near Marseilles has a lobed 
crown, while those from Aix, in Provence, and from Villeneuve-les- 
Avignon (Gard) have the crown entire. The fruits vary in the same 
umbel from pyriform-oblong to pyriform. I have observed that the 
flower which opens last often remains but half developed in Narcissus, 
having the characters and colour of a lately expanded bud. It is pos- 
sible that the smaller and more pyriform fruits may be the product of 
these blossoms. I would suggest to experimentalists that a series of 
observations noting the characters of seedlings from the earliest and 
the latest flowers of individual plants, might lead to interesting and 
valuable results. -To make the experiments complete, both the first 
and the last flowers should be fertilized with pollen from a distinct indi- 
vidual of the same species, and should be protected from insect agency. 
N. dubius, Gouan, is not found in Italy or along the Riviera*; but 
from Mont Coudon to the westward, at Marseilles, Avignon, Pont du 
Gard, and Bione, in Hérault (Gren. et Godr.), Aix, in Provence (Herb. 
Gay!), in Corsica, at Ajaccio (Bourgeau!), near Mont Cada about 
twenty-one miles north of Barcelona (Bourgeau! in Herb. Gay; this 
label and that of the preceding specimen being written by M. Gay), 
Pyrenees, and Greece (Nyman). 
ExpLaNaTion oF Prats LXXI.—Fig. A 1, a flower cut in half, lon- 
gitudinally, of the natural size. A 2, a transverse section of the scape, 
of the natural size. A 3, transverse section of a leaf, of the natural 
size. A 4,the same, magnified. Fig. B, a flower from the Antibes, 
cultivated specimen, of the natural size. Fig. C 1, a transverse section 
of the scape, of the natural size. C 2, a transverse section of the upper, 
and C 3, of the lower part of a leaf, of the natural size. C 4, an outer, 
and C 5, an inner division of the perianth. C 6,a flower cut in half, 
longitudinally, of the natural size. 
* Nyman, in his ‘Sylloge,’ mentions it as growing at Nice, but does not give his 
authority. This is a probably a mistake. 
