THE 



PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE 

 AND JOURNAL. 



31 st JANUARY 1824. 



I. On two new Species of Narcissus. 



To the Editors of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal. 

 Gentlemen, 



\\T HEN you published in your last Number, p. 44-0, Mr. Ha- 

 * * worth's excellent account of a new Genus of Narcissecc, 

 you were not aware that the two species there noticed had been 

 described, and one of them actually figured, in The Botanical 

 Register, as new species of Narcissus, with specific names un- 

 der which they have been known and distinguished for the 

 last two years, and which I am persuaded Mr. Haworth has 

 no desire to change. The Diomedes minor of Mr. Ha- 

 worth is Narxissus Macleayi of the Botanical Register. This 

 plant appears to have been long lost to our gardens until re- 

 cently imported by the Secretary to the Linnaean Society, 

 among other bulbs, from Smyrna. Mr. Haworth's D. major 

 is figured in the Botanical Register, and named Narcissus 

 Sabini, in honour of the worthy Secretary of the Horticultural 

 Society, whose thorough knowledge of the genus fully entitles 

 him to this distinction, independently of the circumstance of 

 his having recently restored this species to the notice of British 

 botanists. Whether the beautiful genus of Narcissics ought to 

 be divided into many genera, must be left to botanists to 

 decide ; but I suspect that Diomedes will not be considered 

 a good name for a genus of plants, as being not sufficiently 

 distinct from the genus Diomedea of Linnaeus. 



Yours &c. 



E. E. 



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