By Richard Anthony Salisbury, Esq. S4o 



near London ; for it delights in a shady exposure, and deep 

 rich loam. Two large beds of it, nevertheless, were very 

 flourishing many years in the moist hollow of a nursery on 

 the Kilburn road : and it used to be equally luxuriant in Mr. 

 Curtis's botanic garden at Lambeth : but he complained to 

 me that it did not thrive at all when removed to Brompton. 

 I believe that few of these Alpine species will endure the 

 drought and burning sun we often experience in June, espe- 

 cially when on a gravelly bottom. I have never seen them 

 thrive so well in any garden as they did at Chapel Allerton, 

 where the summer temperature is so low that Scarlet Straw- 

 berries seldom ripen before the beginning of July. 



Ajax Obvallaris. MSS. Narcissus major y. KerinBot. 

 Mag.n. 1031. cum Ic. absque foliis. Narcissus Sibthorpii. Ha- 

 worth in Linn. Trans, v. 5. p. 243. Narcissus Obvallaris. Prodr. 

 p. 22. Pseudo-narcissus major Hispanic. Clus. Hist. Pi. lib. 2. 

 p. 165. 



The first time I saw this plant, it was pointed out to me by 

 Mr. Curtis, as an indigenous species, which he had just re- 

 ceived from Dr. John Sibthorp. To Oxford I set off the 

 next day, where I was not a little disappointed to learn, that 

 by a mistake of the gardener's, some bulbs of it, intended for 

 Mr. Sole, had been directed to Mr. Curtis, and those of 

 our wild species, which Mr. Curtis wished to have from 

 Noke Woods, had been sent to Mr. Sole. By way of conso- 

 lation, however, my late excellent friend loaded me with many 

 plants not then in my garden, and we spent a whole morning 

 in examining Sherrard's Herbarium : but no specimen of 

 this plant was to be found, nor could he tell me any thing 

 about it, except that when his father, who was then absent 



