NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 29 
self in the Revisio calls the areoep a “forte propria species.” 
subequal stamens resemble those of N. radiiflorus and N. siallords 
rather than N. majalis, while its “at corona recalls N. poeticus, 
and taking its features as a whole, it seems almost as distinct as 
any of the forms hitherto dealt with as species. The only separate 
specific name that I can trace for this Swiss plant is ss 
petalus Schleicher in Steudel’s Nomenclator—a fete nudum” 
and Haworth’s varietal name therefore becomes valid as N. exertus 
— it is raised to specific rank. It is probable that this plant 
e N. albus circulo croceo vel luteo of the Pinaxz, which is said 
66 vditier from N. albus circulo purpureo, the a crowned N. 
poeticus, el in the colour of the corona-mar 
In addition to these plants verte by Haworth, Her- 
bert’s variety girs which was unknown to his predecessor, 
merits notice as a form remarkable for its anitottaly dwarf habit. 
‘Its unequal stamens feaetiibls those of N. poeticus and N. majalis, 
and Parlatore et to have vena it with the former of shale 
rather than with N. raditflorus, as been done by some more 
recent authors. But its different pecianlcanigniont more cuneate 
elow ad distinctly more acute, as well as its quite small cupular 
corona, render it difficult to place it as a variety under either 
N. poeticus or N. majalis, while it is still less like N. recwrvus ; 
and it thus seems necessary to treat it as a full species, N. verban- 
ensis. It appears to be the preva pried Narcissus of the Italian 
Lakes ena is not improbably the N. albus circulo croceo 
minor of the Pinax. It is also possible that it is the N. minimus 
to purpureus nce Par. 87, No. 3, or the N. medio croceus 
Us i in his 
cincta and croceo-cincta respectively. Of these two plants Haworth 
had no actual knowledge, but it is not easily explained why they 
were placed apart from the poeticus forms by Parkinson if they 
were really members of that grou 
In the spring of 1914 I received from Savoy fresh flowers of a 
dwarf Narcissus with stamens as in N. verbanensis but with a 
more deeply cupped corona and narrower, more stellate perianth- 
segments similar to those of N. stellaris. This pone seems con- 
specific with Herbert’s plant, von perhaps varietally distinct ; 
and somewhat larger specimens in Herb. Kew, collected at 
Pontarlier in the French Jura and received from Gay under the 
name of N. stellaris, mad rei at — as likewise another 
plant there, from re fot n Southern France, whence Herbert 
records N. stella Unfortu caeaes: the arrangement of the 
stamens in ies oxtdoakii cannot be determined without dissect- 
ing the flowers, which is oon ap genet in a public collection ; 
Narcissus of slaves ment N. ver 
The next new ay an published are are fabibas of Barr’s List of 1884, 
