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Pseudo-narcissus was growing abundantly, and N. biflorus rather 

 sparingly, I observed a Narcissus differing from both ; and on going 

 to it I found it to be a species which, in its double form, is vei'y fre- 

 quent in gardens. I believe it to be N. aurantius, or Quelliaaurantia 

 of Haworth's Monograph, the corolla being of a full, clear yellow, and 

 the nectary orange, both nearly as deep in colour as the correspond- 

 ing parts of the well-known variety of N. Tazetta named Soleil d'Or, 

 and much deeper than the figure of N. incomparabilis of Bot. Mag. 

 121. I observed but one tuft with flowers, and of these all but a very 

 few were withered ; but there were other tufts of leaves which, from 

 their colour, seemed to be of the same species. The field is contigu- 

 ous to an old farm-house, and to the village church ; and although N. 

 biflorus is not plentiful here it grows abundantly in a neighbouring 

 field. N. Pseudo-narcissus is plentiful in many places in the district. 



New Form of Myosotis paliistris of Withering. 



The President read the following note, from Mr. J, B. Davies, of 

 Keswick, dated July 10, 1852 : — 



I lately sent to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh specimens of a 

 Myosotis found very abundantly by me during last month, in the 

 neighbourhood of Derwentwater Lake, at the same time stating it as 

 my belief that if it was not the true M. palustris that plant was no- 

 where, so far as I could learn, to be found in Cumberland. A few 

 days ago, however, I came upon the normal form, which seems to be 

 later in coming into flower than that about to be mentioned. The* 

 essential characters of M. palustris, I need scarcely state, are, " teeth 

 of calyx short, triangular ; lobes of corolla slightly emarginate ; pu- 

 bescence of the stem spreading.^''* In no other of the large-flowered 

 forget-me-nots have we the short, triangular, calycine segments ; so 

 that this character alone is suflicient to distinguish it from all other 

 plants of the same genus, without the extra essential of the spreading 

 pubescence on the stem. My plant wants this last character, a pecu- 

 liarity which I have nowhere seen noticed. The characters of the 

 variety might be expressed thus : — "Calyx open in fruit, shorter than 

 the pedicels, with straight, adpressed bristles ; teeth short, triangular; 

 limb of corolla flat, longer than its tube, lobes slightly emarginate ; 

 style about as long the calyx, which is divided one-third of its length ;" 

 pubescence of stem adpressed. That portion of the description marked 



* The portion of the stem here meant is from the root upwards to about the mid- 

 dle of the stem, all parts ahove this being usually covered with adpressed pubescence. 



