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Detar distinct plant se at in recent years is N. grandi- 
S precox, an early-flowering form which recalls Haworth’s 
floru 
description of N. 8 nine var. gractlior. Its broad leaves and 
mange em of cee pre -segments resemble those of N. recurvus, 
as do also to extent the stamens and corona; on the other 
hand, by thes ais stellate perianth, ellipsoid fruit and early 
floweri ring, it approaches N. radiiflorus. It is a form probably of 
Dutch origin, and perhaps a hybrid _ these two species although 
normally they do not flower togethe 
further form observed some sia ago in a Dutch nursery 
and now much cultivated in England under the name of “ Almira 
seems more or less intermediate between N. — and -— 
variety ornatus. Mr. Engleheart thinks it has the appearance of 
a wild plant, and if so, it was probably obtained be selection fro 
some local race of N. exertus, of the type of which it may be 
considered an extreme form with reninsh bts broad and truncate 
perianth-segments and a deep red instead of orange margin to 
the co eas 
Among the gars received last spring a Mr. Engleheart 
an extremely handsome, late-flowering form of Pyrenean origin, 
apparently referable mn ‘the flat-crowned N. shusioahs is worthy of 
ention on account of the breadth of its a (12-14 mm.) ot 
the development of a well-marked, white zone in the corona of 
wers. It is possible, judging ons “this white zone, 
that it is a natural cross with some form of N. majalis, but 
sabre ter _ local knowledge this cannot be satisfactorily 
determ 
The at variety to be noticed is N. poeticus B sulphureus Rouy 
(Fl. France, J. c. ) ee solely by its sulphur-yellow 
flowers—a character that seems to indicate an accidental sport or 
a hybrid with some yliow-fowered species of Narcissus. I have 
seen no specimens of brie variety. 
It will now be s aeilat of these varying forms of Poet’s 
Narcissi, nine hay fads 00 regated for recognition as ac 
species. In grouping them the system of Haworth, based eget 
time of flowering, must be passed over as unscientific, “for 
is evident that y depen 
largely on the latitude and altitude at. which they grow. The 
two species recognised by Koch, N. poeticus and N. radiiflorus, 
seem to offer the basis of a better slaasiflcation, for they are in 
— measure representative of two series of forms in which the 
her species may also be placed. But an ae of this 
Rind is complicated by cross-affinities. N.majalis and N. recurvus 
