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XXV. J new Arrangement of the Genus Narcijus. By A. H. Ha' 

 ivorth, Efq» F.L-S. 



Read OLiber i, 1799. 



THE genus Nivcijfiis is at once beautiful, fragrant, and (as a 

 vernal one,) interefting; but although it has been univer- 

 fally cultivated for more than a century, both in this country and 

 on the Continent, it is ftill comparatively but little underftood ; 

 and yet the fpecics are neither numerous nor deficient in charac- 



teriftic diftinflions. 



I trufl:, therefore, the following account of its component fpecies, 

 fo far only as I grow them myfelf, will not be unacceptable to the 

 Linnean Society. It has nothing to recommend it, but the novelty 

 and fimplicity of its divifions, and charadlers eftablilTied by a ten 

 years cultivation. 



I poffefs feveral Narcijfi y'\\\d\ I have not inferted in this arrange- 

 ment, not having had them long enough to difcover chara6ters 

 fufficiently permanent. 



Nearly all the Narcijfi have bulbous roots of the tunicated kind, 

 which are faid to grow fpontaneoufly in the fouthern parts of 

 Europe, but more efpecially in Spain. In England we have four. 

 For brevity's fake I (liall give but one fynonym to each defcribed 

 fpecies, and that fhall be the beft : thofe which are new fhall be 

 marked with an aflerilk. 



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