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as the white cup-shaped crown. Very beautiful 

 when at its best, but seldom has perfect flowers. 



(7) MACLEAII. — An old hybrid not found in 

 a wild state. Origin unknown. Mr Baker con- 

 siders it from Pseudo-Narcissus Bicolor X Incomparabilis. 

 Mr Engleheart thinks it probably from some small, 

 very stout form of Bicolor x Poeticus, but possibly 

 from Pseudo-Narcissus X Tazetta (the bunch-flowered 

 character having been lost). A small-growing 

 Narcissus; one flowered; segments milk-white, 

 much imbricated, about three-quarter inch long ; 

 corona bright yellow, about half inch long. Re- 

 ceived from France (1819) by Mr Alex. Macleay 

 and named after him. 



Sabini, of similar parentage but more 

 robust, with larger flowers and corona 

 longer in proportion to the segments. 



(8) NELSONI. — A garden type, having con- 

 siderable resemblance to Macleaii, but much more 

 robust. White segments, one to one and a half 

 inches long, much imbricated, lemon-yellow crown 

 more than half as long as the segments. Its 

 parentage seems probably to be Bicolor x Poeticus, 

 from which cross Mr Engleheart has raised numer- 

 ous hybrids closely similar to it as well as flowers 

 of Incomparabilis and Backhousei character. 



There are many garden forms of this, 

 one of which, Nelsoni Aurantius, is very 

 conspicuous for the remarkably vivid 

 orange-red colour of the cup. 



(9) BACKHOUSEI.— G?ixden hybrid raised by 

 Mr W. Backhouse of St John's, Weardale. Mr 

 Baker thinks this Pseudo-Narcissus X Incomparabilis. 

 It has also been ascribed to Pseudo-Narcissus x 

 Tazetta. But Mr Engleheart has raised Backhousei 

 forms as well as Nelsoni from Bicolor X Poeticus. Peri- 



