30 NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 
appears to have derived its name from its identification with the 
specimen of the Linnean Herbarium, either by Barr or by 
Burbidge. But it has been shown that Linnwus’s sheet of 
rt., and from that species this Bebe Howeke form differs in 
Narcissus one of the most distinct of the group, deserving 
recognition as a species, and it is accordingly proposed to describe 
it as N. hellenicus. Its origin in cultivation is not certainl 
known and it cannot be traced in literature prior to 1884, but it 
as been reported to haye been brought from Greece shortly 
before that year, and probably correctly so, for it seems identical 
with the Greek exsiccata represented both in Herb. Kew and 
Herb. Mus. Brit., «0, 
N. poeticus. Agrapha, N europolis.” A second example in Herb. 
us. Brit., “René du Parquet, Kalki, Sea of Marmora,” may 
be a state of the same species, although of dwarfer habit and 
with a larger flower. f 
nother important plant introduced in Barr’s List is his 
ornaius, which, as already shown, is not the Species previously so 
named by Haworth. Barr’s plant, now one of the best known of 
Narcissi, appears to be a wild form or old hybrid from Southern 
rance which in characters is less closely allied to N. poeticus 
: ' ; 
posed to associate Barr’s plant. The general resemblance of 
this variety ornatus to Redouté’s figure of N. poeticus may be 
seen. 3 
arr’s further variety grandiflorus, which is still obtainable 
in Ireland, is a plant of unknown origi i 
but with larger flowers and a broader red margin to the corona. 
