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On the Cultivation of Rare Plants. 



flower, and planted at random in various parts of the garden 

 at ChapeJ Allerton, succeeded admirably; multiplying by 

 off-sets, as well as ripening seeds every year : but all the 

 roots brought from thence to Mill Hill gradually decayed, 

 just in the way I had before, year after year, observed them 

 to go off in Messrs. Lee and Kennedy's nursery. I suspect 

 it may be Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus of Brotero, and that 

 the plant requires shade. 



Ajax Lacinularis. MSS. Narcissus major fi. Ker in 

 Bot. Mag. n. 617 cum lc. absque foliis. Narcissus Propin- 

 quus. Prodr. p. 221. Narcissus Hispanicus medius luteus. 

 Theatr. Fl. t. 20. Pseudo-narcissus aureus praecox. Besl. Hort. 

 Eystt. Vern. 3. Ord.fol. 6./. 3. 



I am not able to trace the first introduction of this species, 

 but it was cultivated by Dr. Richardson, at North Bierly, 

 in 1712, in whose woods I gathered it with Tulipa Sylvestris, 

 about forty years ago. It is often sent accidentally among 

 Dutch bulbs, and will grow in any soil, though much bolder 

 in damp loam. 



Ajax Grandiflorus. MSS. Narcissus Grandiflorus 

 Prodr. p. 221. Narcissus major. Curt, in Bot. Mag. n. 51. cam 

 lc. optima. Narcissus Hispanicus. Gouan. Obs. p. 23. Narcissus 

 major totus luteus, &c. Rudb. Camp. Elys. lib. 2. p. 71. 9- 

 bond. Pseudo-narcissus aureus Hispanicus maximus. Park. 

 Par.v . 99. Bulbocodium Hispanicum. J. Bauh. Hist. PI. t?.2. 

 p. 594. Narcissus totus luteus montanus, &c. Besl. Hort. 

 Eystt. Vern. 3. Ord.fol. l.f.l. Narcissus totus luteus sylves- 

 tris major. Vallet Jard. cum lc. 



This species grows wild plentifully in the mountains of 

 I/Esperou, and is a noble plant, rarely seen in perfection 



