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des Plantes Vasculaires envisagee principalement quant a Y influence 

 des Roches Soujacentes.' We have preferred to retain a few of the 

 Grseco-Gallic terms untranslated. C. 



Remarks on a Narcissus found near Malvern. 

 By John Roby, Esq. 



I beg to forward for your notice a double Narcissus, quite new, 1 

 fancy, to English Botany. It grew along with more in a meadow, far 

 from any house or garden, near this place ; but nevertheless I was 

 apprehensive it might have escaped from cultivation. Making in- 

 quiry, however, I find that in a pasture or meadow near Lord Somers' 

 park, at Eastnor, a few miles hence, it occurs in tolerable plenty and 

 indubitably wild, inasmuch as it has been known there many years, 

 and the ground unbroken within the memory of man. Here also are 

 specimens of N. poetic us, I understand. I am informed, too, of 

 another locality for the very same description of flower near North- 

 ampton, by a brook running through a low meadow; and again, if I 

 mistake not, near Southampton, where double varieties of the N. 

 bifiorus do unquestionably grow wild. 1 am puzzled about the name, 

 as I do not remember it in gardens, nor can I find a figure in what 

 books I have. I should feel much obliged by any remarks or infor- 

 mation on the subject. 



John Roby. 

 Great Malvern, May 1, 1850. 



[The plant is Narcissus incomparabilis. In Dillwyn's ' Materials 

 for a Fauna and Flora of Swansea ' the following notice of it occurs : 

 " Grows in the little park at Margam, and Mrs. D. Llewellyn has 

 shown me good ground to believe that it has continued to do so for 

 at least two centuries — p. 36." I cite this from Watson's ' Cybele 

 Britannica,' ii. 446, a reference to which will show that seven exotic 

 species of Narcissus have been recorded as growing in Britain. The 

 flower sent by Mr. Roby is double, or, as the cultivators have it Jlore 

 pleno : it is very common in gardens : children know it by the name 

 of " butter and eggs." — Edward Newman.] 



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