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discovered oy ui Buxton at a height of 7000 ft. in a valley of the 
Spanish Bg ceed is of interest because it is the only white daffodil 
now auc naw abitat; though four, more or less distinct, 
us, cernuus, albicans, a tortuosus, were known to the 
Sane patina probably as early as 1600. It is open to question 
whether the white daffodil exhibited should be called cernuus or 
moschatus. Linneus’s name of moschatus was applied to a white 
daffodil from the Pyrenees. The name cernuus was apulice o an 
ajax or daffodil, and used by Roth, Schultes, and Haworth in 1817, 
1831, and meee — ormapee in 1816, applied the name cernuus 
to Narcissus triandrus Linn., or a variety of it. 
his ¢ Tinseatiadies Flore His Sssictes has recently pater oes a ‘¢ third 
species, under the name of cernuus. The specimen exhibited was 
flowered by the Rev. ©. Wolley Dod from bulbs collected by 
via Henriques, of sss imbra, in Serra d'Estrella, sie It is 
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** Phytological Observations, and on the Leaf of Liriodendron.” In 
CEnothera bistorta the seed-leaves are linear, terminating in a een 
round expansion. There was nothing to account for it in the seed, 
that of the anbeeqiaind leaves. ‘Those of @. bistorta are long an 
narrow, hefice the peculiar form of this species. In allied sane 
the seed-leaves ome of two parts, a terminal portion, the true 
original cotyledon, and a subsequent growth resembling in ae 
species the true leaves. Sir John referred to seed-leaves in which 
the stalks were connate, instancing the case of Smyrniwm, wherein 
Tilia, —_ Cardamine, &c.), suggestin the: causes to whic. 
_ deseribed aati of the bud and the manner in whic 
"young ose were packed in it, and s. hong that. the opel 
manner in which the young leaves are.arranged satisfactorily 
ae the well-known and very scmastehiet form “of f the leaf. 
