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AMARYLLIDACEJE. 



NARCISSUS, Linn. 



664. *M'. biflorus. Curt. Primrose Peerless. 



N. medioluteii-s vulgaris, Park. (E. Syn. iii.). N. medio-lutens, Qer. cm. 



(Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 444. Syme E. B. ix. tt. 1503. 

 Meadows; rare. P. May. 



I. Near Harefield in several places ; Blackst. Fasc. 64. In a meadow 

 to the south of Euislip Reservoir, in plenty. 

 IV. Waste ground by Mrs. Rotch's house at the bottom the Hill, Harrow, 



probably planted ; Melv. 77. 

 VI. [Near Hornsey Chiu-ch, J. Sherard; R. Syn. iii. 371. Mr. Dillwyn 

 could not find it there ; B. G. 403.] 

 First record : J. Sherard, 1724. Figured in Pet. H. B. Cat. Ixvii. fig. 10. 



K poeticus, L. Cyb. Br. ii. 444. Syme E. B. ix. t. 1504. I. Meadow 

 at Pinner Hill, likely escaped from a garden, Mrs. Tooke ; Melv. 77. 

 In a field bet. Euislip Eeserroir and the road to Harefield, 1866; 

 Griffith {v. s.). Much cultivated. 



665. W. pseudo-XTarcissus, L. Daffodil. 

 jV. sylv. pallid, calice luteo, C. B. P. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 445 ; iii. 613. Syme E. B. ix. t. 1501. 

 Meadows ; rather rare. P. April. 



I. In the orchard at Breakspears, plentifully ; Blackst. Fasc. 63. In a 

 grove near Harefield Church, 1853 ; Herh. Hardw. In great plenty 

 near the high road from Pinner to Eickmansworth, where the cross 

 roads to Eastcott and Potter's Green are, 1867; Cole. 



III. Roxeth, probably not indigenous, W. M. H. ; Melv. 77. 



IV. Mill Hill ; Salisbury in Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 348. Ibid. 1840 ; Herb. 



Hardw. Field behind the 'Kings Head;' Lond. Fl. 109. Behind 

 the ' Spaniards,' Hampstead, no doubt escaped or planted. 

 V. In a wood near Ealing, introduced ; Hemsley. 

 VI. Hornsey ; Cat. Lond. 14, Behind Bury House, Edmonton, garden 



escape. 

 VII. Stamford Hill ; Cat. Lond. 16. Abundant in Ken Wood, but probably 

 ^ planted. 



Hb First record: Clusius, 1601, who says : ' In such abundance in tlie mea- 

 ^H dows close to London, that in that celebrated village of Ceapside the 

 ^H country women offer the flowers in profusion for sale in March, when 

 ^H all the taverns maybe seen decked out with these blossoms ;' 5ar. 

 ^H Plant. Hist. 164. Lobel also {Adv. 51) says, that in February and 



