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ON THE BRITISH DAFFODILS. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.R.S. ‘ 
(Pare 247). Te ctl 
I roox advantage of the opportunity of the great Daffodil Show 
at South Kensington, held on the 1st of April under the auspices of 
the Royal Horticultural Society, to ask the tei what they knew 
At two forms which have pe: supposed to be British, which 
im in his well-known Monogra oh of the Nan ‘cissinee whic 
= Saal as a supplement to the fourth volume of Sweet’s ‘ British 
r Garden’ in 1888. bie following is what Haworth says 
eat fe four British forms :— 
ee 
oup Lutet, floribus plerumque luteis, seepe TO: 
rarissime preld  Pe albicantibus, corona plus minusve 
7 Sub-grou up tSerricorone, statura mediocri, corona minus pro- 
funde serrata seu crenata quam in sequentibus 
. “13. Pseudo-narcissus A. (the garland), scapo ancipiti tereti- 
usculo obs striato; corolle laciniis pallide sulphureis, exterioribus 
lanceolato- -ellipticis tubum vix sae es ; corona lutea ore recto 
crenatim serrato ge aa lacinia Linn. » p. 414. 
“ Ajax Magagiok Ree n Hort. Tr. v. 243. Narcissus Pseudo- 
narcissus, Eng. 
** Sub-group Hidaer -corone, mediocres, lobis integrioribus 
“16. lobularis A. (Tenby 6-lobed D affodil), corolle jacinitg 
luteis tubo obconico exacte duplo longioribus; corona perlutea 
patula steady (lobis integris) laciniis tres lineas superante. 
No b. in Phil. Mag. May, Ree 31. 
‘This 8 grows wild n ar Te enby, in Pembrokeshire, which by 
ae was written Truby, in Derbyshire, in the place above 
ci 
*B. ? Bee pe 
seep as a wild bulb from Devonshire, with 
double flowers, aera ffsets bearing for the three last years 
pai: pace! single ones. as its source pape ? + would form 
@ good species with the following essential characters :— 
orolle laciniis ovato-acutis valde imbrieantiba lateis, tubo 
sesquilongiore ; corona we |e agate asl a apic cem Rash 
pee (the Soa deep ‘alloy double een): 
. «hi? Scapo compresso ancipite.torto alte striato, co- 
roll lain aaa hein. ellipticis sulphnreit 5 tei longe superanti- 
8, corona lutea, ore magno expanso insciso presse! ruguloso. 
Forte propria species. Hxemplariam unum solum navi. 
mbricus A. (the recurving-lobed), calle pa luteis 
juste or Borany,—Von, 22. [Juny, 1884.] ) 
