NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 17 
plants of the garden. In Britain, — of these Narcissi has 
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not been so continuous, for a recrudescence of interest in them 
took place early in the wineteentl Seay. when shay were dealt 
with first by Salisbury and a ards more elaborately by 
he sis in gardens at hepmninste he endeavoured to ascertain 
the o Caspar Bauhin seems to have satisfactorily identified 
these thse — 7 Clusius, ‘edides ST et ier two additional 
forms ; and Magnolius (Bot. Monsp. p. 181 (1676) ) mentions two 
of Bauhin’s forms, one flowering early or the other late, as 
natives of Montpelier i in the South of France 
is not a little remarkable that in sonics to this more 
on herbarium material, in which ointe the opening 
f this paper, the floral characters are es obliterated or even 
rendered misleading, while the fruit, if n sent, = ne eens 
indeterminable. And no serious effort sere to hav 
since the time of Haworth to define accurately the irda ting 
and correlate them with those of known wild origin 
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life, fresh examples of the greatest possible number of forms of 
Poet’s Narcissi, both wild and cultivated, and I think I have 
Scaesded 3 in securing all the older “British garden plants, excepting 
spathulatus, albus, dianthos, triflorus, recurvus var. gractlior and 
stellaris of Haworth, verbanensis Herbert and Barr’s ‘“ Marvel.” 
Mr. PR R. Barr and Rey. G. i. Engleheart have kindly sore 
me in obtaining some of my desiderata. Of the forms a no 
readily obtainable in England, N. radtiflorus and N. majalis are 
still grown for sale at Lissadell, in Ireland, and N. Winellie 
Salisb. by Messrs W. Be ia rtla ee of Cork. In the case of 
verbanensis, I have been n obliged to rely on my recollection of the 
plant as I saw it in abundance on — a lls ome Lake Maggiore 
in 1908, to supplement my herbar 
attempting to shinmnhé: ‘the relationship between the 
wild and cultivated forms in this group, it is desirable to draw 
attention to the excessive variability sometimes seen with the 
former as contrasted with the comparative uniformity of many of 
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