96 NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 
still in the process of extension, for market gardeners now employ 
it for the Poet’s forms nae A and , have — yoar heard 
these spoken of in the trade simply as “P.I.’s”! The “ Phea- 
sant’s Hye” is, of course, a nam Sct eee er applied by authors to 
the red-flowered species of Adon 
A figure of N. recurvus, un Gaited the MS. name of N. curvilobus, 
fe satated in the Salisbury collection of drawings in Herb. Mus. 
Brit., and it may be inferred from this that Salisbury regarded it 
as a species additional to the three distinguished in Hort. Trans. 
i. 365, of which his drawings have been reproduced for this paper. 
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names as those si adopted, were also shown in Haworth’s 
Narciss. Revisio in 1819. - The further — established by 
Haworth in — ueiiaeragt remain to be considered. 
The first of them, N. poetarum, is ~inaseable for its wholly 
red corona—a rer of which I find no independent mention in 
any Continental flora. The figure of Merian, cited by Haworth 
for this plant, resembles it in the form of the perianth, corona and 
stamens, but as the plate is uncoloured and accompanied by no 
description, the ‘dentity! is uncertain, From the frequent recurving 
of the leaf-tips, N. poetarwm may also be Gerard’s N. medio 
purpureus precocior, but on this point also the evidence is at least 
insufficient. Haworth’s description was taken from a London 
garden a of whose origin he seems to have known nothing. I 
learn from the Rey. G. H. Engleheart that wild Poet’s Narcissi of 
the Pyronocs occasionally show a similar colouration of the corona, 
but as the stamens of N. poetarum are subequal, it seems: less 
urther resembles in its narrow fruit. the other 
em its pi fai ) periant th and flat corona are very different 
from what obtains in N. radiiflorus, and as it presents several 
cannot readily be reduced to a variety of any one of them. 
so seems unlikely, from its peculiarly coloured corona, that it 
can be a hybrid form, and it therefore seems best to retain it as @ 
separate species. 
aworth’s next species, N. spathulatus, is less completely 
rant ag those preceding it, <a er _ of the corona 18 
no authentic specim n to exist and the 
a is s ip to be lost to cultivation tues Barr, supra), its 
position must be regarded as indefinabl 
N. albus, founded on a plant of Miller’ s (Diet. ed. 8, ay i is 
another doubtful form, possibly allied to N. triandrus. It was 
to Herbert and is not enumerated in Barr’s Tist of 
poeticus-varieties 
Of N. dianthos Haworth the affinities : are not certain as the 
channelled leaves 16 mm. broad with a white, s akan ee 
perianth and a small, ge ~~ ome eet ) 
