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which will be found in Hooker's ' London Journal of Botany.' In 

 1843 Zeyher visited a second time Naraaqualand, which occupied 

 him a year; he then departed for England, and after a stay of nearly 

 eight months at Kew, where he arranged his collections, visited his 

 native country and several other continental states. In 1847 he 

 returned to Southern Africa, and has ever since been residing in Cape 

 Town, holding, from 1849 until March, 1851, the office of Botanist of 

 the Botanic Gardens at that place. 



Zeyher, in conjunction with Ecklon, is the author of the 'Enume- 

 ratio PI. Afric.,' and has published, besides, both in English and Ger- 

 man, different botanical memoirs. What he has done as a collector 

 has been so often acknowledged, that it would be a mere idle pane- 

 gyric were here an attempt made to enlarge upon it. 



Berthold Seemann. 

 Kew, December, 1851. 



Note on Narcissus poeticus. By the Kev. W. T. Bree, M.A. 



When recording the fact of Narcissus poeticus occurring in great 

 abundance in a field in the parish of Fillongley (Phytol. iii. 945), I 

 stated that the plant was " confined to that one field, with the excep- 

 tion, however, of one or two small patches in the orchard, which 

 nobody would take to be wild." Since that notice was printed, I 

 have ascertained that there is another field near Fillongley where the 

 Narcissus also abounds. This second field adjoins a fai'm-house called 

 Black Hall, which is about half a mile north-west of the village. I 

 visited the spot the end of last May, and found the Narcissus in 

 plenty, though by no means in the same profusion as in the " lily 

 field " at Blaber's Hall.* Here, at Black Hall, it grows chiefly in 

 two large, dense beds, on a slope of ground, with a few small patches 

 scattered here and there in other parts of the same field. Now, the 

 occurrence of the Narcissus in a second locality in the same neigh- 

 bourhood may seem, perhaps, to give some countenance to the notion 

 of its being a true native. I am bound to state, however, that all the 

 same suspicious circumstances which (as I have stated) accompany 

 the plant at Blaber's Hall, attach to it also in this second locality at 



* The proper name of the place, which in my former communication I called 

 " Glaber's " or " Glaver's Hall," I have since ascertained, from the agent for the pro- 

 perty, is " Blaber's Hall." 



