444 75. AMARYLLIDACE^. 



1071. Narcissus poeticus, Linn. 



Area (3 45**** 10* [12] * * 15). 



Alien. It is to be regretted that the authors of our de- 

 ^scriptive Floras should persist in still including this species 

 among the native and really naturalized plants of Britain, 

 instead of simply noticing it as an occasional straggler or 

 planted species, not otherwise entitled to a place in the 

 lists of British plants. In some of the reported habitats, 

 probably, N. biflorus has been misnamed N. poeticus ; 

 and in one of them there is too much reason to believe 

 that interested falsehood was the sole ground on which N. 

 poeticus was recorded. Most weight would seem to have 

 been attached to the habitat of Thome Warren, in Kent, 

 which is rendered more suspected by the occurrence also 

 of double varieties of N. poeticus and biflorus, with Orni- 

 thogalum umbellatum, in the same locality. 



1072. Narcissus biflorus, Curt. 



Area (123*56789 10 11** 14). 



Alien. Occurs in many places ; though allowed to be 

 only an introduced species, by almost all our botanical au- 

 thorities, whose opinion would carry weight in the ques- 

 tion. But to this there are some exceptions. Professor 

 Henslow, Mr. T. H. Cooper, Mr. Lees, and " Mrs. Jones " 

 (Welsh Botanology), appear the principal witnesses or ad- 

 vocates on the side of its nativity in this country. 



