12 NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 
Haw.) are reduced to the rank of forms. The subspecies radit- 
florus is distinguished by its narrower leaves, slender peduncles, 
and perianth-segments cuneately —— in the lower half; an 
of this N. verbanensis is considered a dwarf form. No allusion is 
ise to differences in the form of the corona. 
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many of the ailer forms which Barr re-collected, this time owing 
to the advent of a multitude of modern hybrids, some undoes 
of superior beauty. Among the Poet’s forms N. recurvus an 
Barr’s ornatus have held their own and are perhaps grown im 
greater myriads than ever, but it has again become difficult to 
find patellaris, majalis, stellaris, ai hietig ago and ornatus of 
Haworth, which seem well on the to extinction in Great 
Britain. This renders it sditionaliy hauls to put on record 
the history and characters of these plants, which so long adorned 
the gardens of our ancestors and are the parents of our modern 
hybrids. 
Turning from British to Continental writers, we find Narcissus 
poeticus mediocroceus purpureus described as an early floweri io 
plant of Southern A de — in Stirp. Ady. 
as abundant above Gaming, in Lower Austria, is stated to have 
narrow leaves, sweetly-scented, stellate flowers, with a small, red- 
edged corona (parvum calicem), unequal stamens and trigonous 
fruits. Of the third, oh latifolius vii, Olasins remarks: ‘“ Latiora 
reliquis fo - flos magnus, odoratu: s, sex albis foliis medium 
calicem pallidum cingentibus cujus fimbria ex pallido purpuraselt; 3 
