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"Butter and Eggs"), the well-known 

 double garden form. 



Leedsi. — Corona rimmed with orange- 

 red. Many fine garden forms of this. 

 Var. Albus. — Perianth segments milk-white, 

 or very pale sulphur, corona lemon-yellow. 



There are many fine garden forms after 

 this type. 



Albus plenus aurantius (" Orange 

 Phoenix," " Eggs and Bacon "), well- 

 known double variety. 



(5) BERNARD!.— Wild Pyrenean hybrid, vary- 

 ing much in form ; said to grow wherever Muticus 

 (Abscissus) and Poeticus grow wild together, and 

 so found by Mr Peter Barr. Spreading white 

 perianth segments twice as long as the yellow cup, 

 which has something of the dipt appearance of N. 

 Muticus. In other respects the flower resembles 

 Incomparabilis. (Grenier, in " Flore de France," 

 names and describes three forms of Bernardi, 

 two nearer Pseudo-Narcissus and one nearer to 

 Poeticus.) 



Two specially fine collected forms, 

 " Philip Hurt" and " H. E. Buxton," have 

 very vivid red cups. 



(6) MONTANUS ( = Poculiformis). — Has been 

 known to cultivators for two centuries, and though 

 stated by Salisbury to be a native of damp Pyrenean 

 valleys, is thought by some to be an old garden 

 hybrid, as it cannot be matched by any wild form 

 now known. Dean Herbert suggested Moschatus 

 X Dubius, but it seems more probably from IVhite 

 Ajax X Poeticus, and is really what in garden 

 hybrids we call a " Leedsii." One to two flowered ; 

 has pure white flowers, spreading perianth segments 

 about an inch long, rather imbricated, twice as long 



