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have observed the peasant children in Italy, when on my way from 

 Rome to Florence, with large bouquets of this species, as ours might be 

 seen with similar ones of N. Pseudo-narcissus. The smell of the 

 Primrose peerless is very powerful, reminding one of the fragrant Mag- 

 nolia glauca or gran di flora. The elegant Narcissus of the poets (N. 

 poeticus) is partially naturalized on grassy slopes in the grounds of 

 Norris Castle, by Cowes, but has been too evidently introduced there 

 to find a place in the Hampshire Flora. It is very questionable 

 whether this species be really native in any part of England ; its most 

 truly natural stations are subalpine meadows and pastures in Italy 

 and Switzerland, &c. 



Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus. In moist woods, groves, thickets, 

 copses, meadows, pastures, orchards, and on grassy banks; truly indi- 

 genous in many parts of the Isle of Wight, and on the mainland. 

 Plentiful in Quarr Copse, especially at the end nearest the abbey and 

 in the area of the abbey walls. Sparingly in Apley (Marina) Wood, 

 and wood along the shore betwixt Ryde and Binstead. With N. bi- 

 florus in a field near Hardingshoot farm. Abundant in Firestone 

 Copse and Chillingwood Copse. In considerable plenty in one part 

 of Puckett's Copse, between Quarr and Ninham. On this station 

 many of the flowers were concolorous, or having the segments of the 

 perianth coloured like the crown or cup. In very great profusion un- 

 derneath the rookery at Nunwell Field, by Guildford farm, near Haver- 

 street; also in a field by Ninham, and another by Coppid Hall. The 

 above stations are all near Ryde, and mostly on stiff clay. Wood 

 near St. Helen's, and covers acres of ground in Centurion's Copse, 

 near Bembridge, which is perfectly carpeted with daffodils in spring. 

 Covers the grassy slope of the mount on which Gadshill church 

 stands on the north and east sides as with a sheet of gold. On 

 bushy banks and slopes at Ventnor, behind the Ventnor Hotel, but 

 not seen of late years. In Gurnard or Gurnet Copse, near Cowes, 

 sparingly. Abundant in a little copse near Woodhouse Farm, Fern- 

 hill. Very fine, and in vast profusion* all over a wood chiefly of 

 beech, known as Bottom Wood, occupying a valley between two 

 slopes close to Sandford, near Godshill, on the south side of the vil- 

 lage, and in a large pasture-field adjoining; also in several fields 

 about Winson Farm. Hedge-banks and borders of fields along 



* Many of the plants here are concolorous or of an uniform golden yellow ; the 

 greater part, however, retain the whitish hue of the perianth. This is the N. Pseudo- 

 narcissus, /3. of Bertoloni, Fl. Ilal. iv. p. 18 et 19, or possihly our var. y. 



