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flowers after the others, rivalling, if not excelling, all its pre- 

 decessors in grandeur and beauty. It is a truly alpine plant, 

 with short broad leaves, encreasing fast in any soil, especially 

 chalky loam, with some of which still adhering, bulbs were 

 brought into this country from Montpellier, in 1781, by 

 Beoussonet. It had then however long been in the Oxford 

 garden, and at Londesborough, in Yorkshire, to which it was 

 sent from Siierard's celebrated garden at Kltham. Dr. 

 Uvedalf, one of the most eminent horticulturists of his 

 time, gave it to Sherard, having received the roots from 

 Maonol, in 16"90, as appears by a manuscript catalogue of 

 exotics in his garden at Enfield, chiefly bulbous plants, pre- 

 sented to me by my early and ven Table friend, the son of 

 Dr. Richardson. I do not think that it was introduced 

 before that period, or known to Pa rkinso.v. Li nnmvs first 

 mentions it in the second edition of the Species Plant arum: his 

 specimen is from the Upsal garden, and the bulbs were sent 

 to him by Barrkue, a little before the death of the latter, as 

 I was informed by Professor Gouan. The synonym of Nar- 

 cissus ulbus cahjee fluvo alter, . which both Lin kje us and 

 Gouan, misled by Casper Bauhin himself, quote for it, 

 does not even belong to any species of this genus. 



Ajax Festalis. MSS. a. Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus. 

 Shaw in Engl. Bot. n. 17- cum Ic. Narcissus foliis, &c. Hall. 

 Hist.n. 125*2. Narcissus sylvestris, &c. Ray. Syn. ed. 3.^.371. 

 Bulbocodium vulgatius. J. Bauh. Hist. PL v.2.p. 51)3. Pseudo- 

 narcissus vulgaris. Clus. Hist. PL lib. 2. p. 164. — j3. Narcissus 

 serratus. Haworth Diss. p. 179- 



Of these two varieties, in the former the crown is more 

 finely crenated : and bulbs from Charlton flower at least a 



