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HOOP PETTICOATS. 
ARCISSUS BULBOCODIUM var. mono- 
. Mag., 
t. 5831, and figured in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
1870, p. 665. The varietal name was given after 
consultation with Mr. Baker, and was adopted by 
him in his Review of the Genus Narcissus, and, 
though it does not define the botanical character 
of the variety, that is no reason why it should be 
changed. It has been thought to be the same 
variety to which the name Corbularia can- 
tabrica was given in Haworth’s Enumeration, 
to pl Clusius. (алиа аз iti is not at all likely 
that N. Bulbocodiu was ever found 
in the North of Spain, and as Clusius has always 
proved the most accurate and trustworthy of the 
botanists of the a century, it may be 
worth while to see what he says about the Hoop- 
from his 
petticoats. The following i is translated 
tory ый Rare Plants (ed. Antwerp, 1601), 
P. 165+ 
z some of the hills of Portugal and СТЕ 
rh ics another kind of Narcissus, of which the 
ssn not broad, as of those descrribed OR. 
but v vint hende and Rush-like: the scape is slender 
and bare, 4 — high, and grow 
on the top is ower, consis sting of s 
greenish at first the n pale yellow, widely expanded: 
in the middle of these is a salo сар. — Tike а a 
wine-glass, &c. It was in flower in January, whilst 
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