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AMARYLLIDACEiE. 



NARCISSUS, Linn. 



664. *ia". biflorus, Curt. Primrose 

 X. medio luteus vulgaris, Park. (E. Syn. iii.). N. medio-luteus, Ger. em. 



(Blackst). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 444. Syme E. B. ix. tt. 1503. 

 Meadows; rare. P. May. 



I. Near Harefield in several places ; Blackst. Fasc. 64. In a meadow 

 to the south of Kuislip Eeservoir, in plenty. 

 IV. Waste ground by Mrs. Eotch's house at the bottom the Hill, Harrow, 



probably planted ; Melv. 77. 

 VI. [Near Hornsey Church, J. Sherard; B. Syn. iii. 371. Mr. Dillwyn 

 could not find it there ; B. G. 403.] 

 First record : J. Sherard, 1724. Figured in Pet. H. B. Cat. Ixvii. fig. 10. 



N. poeticus, L. Cyb. Br. ii. 444. Syme E. B. ix. t. 1504. I. Meadow 

 at Pinner Hill, likely escaped from a garden, Mrs. Tooke ; Melv. 77- 

 In a field bet. Euislip Eeservoir and the road to Harefield, 1866; 

 Griffith {v. s.). Much cultivated. 



665. XT. pseudo-XTarcissus, L. Baff'odil. 

 N. sylv. pallid, calice luteo, C. B. P. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 445 ; iii. 513. Syme E. B. ix. t. 1501. 

 Meadows ; rather rare. P. April. 



I. In the orchard at Breakspears, plentifully ; Blackst, Fasc. 63. In a 

 grove near Harefield Church, 1853 ; Herb. Hardw. In great plenty 

 near the high road from Pinner to Eickmansworth, where the cross 

 roads to Eastcott and Potter's Green are, 1867; Cole. 



III. Eoxeth, probably not indigenous, W. M. H. ; Melv. 77- 



IV. Mill Hill ; Salisbury in Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 348. Ibid. 1840 ; Herb. 



Hardw. Field behind the 'Kings Head;' Lond. Fl. 109. Behind 

 the ' Spaniards,' Hampstead, no doubt escaped or planted. 

 V. In a wood near Ealing, introduced ; Hemsley. 

 VI. Hornsey ; Cat. Lond. 14. Behind Bury House, Edmonton, garden 



VII. Stamford Hill ; Cat. Lond. 16. Abundant in Ken Wood, but probably 

 planted. 

 First record : Clusius, 1601, who says : 'In such abundance in the mea- 

 dows close to London, that in that celebrated village of Ceapside the 

 country women offer the fiowers in profusion for sale in March, when 

 all the taverns may be seen decked out with these blossoms ; ' Bar. 

 Plant. Hist. 164. Lobel also (Adv. 51) says, that in February and 



