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On the Cultivation of Rare Plants. 



optimd. Narcissus latifolius flavo fiore amplo calyce. Clus. 

 Cur. Post. p. 60. 



The first of these varieties is very common in all our gar- 

 dens, in a double state, but I have never met with it single: 

 the second produces flowers of a paler or deeper tint, accord- 

 ing to the soil and situation in which it grows ; for on dry 

 lime-stone fully exposed to the sun, they are much yellower ; 

 and in a parcel of roots taken up with a ball of earth, to be 

 transplanted from a shady situation, but accidentally left on 

 a gravel walk, I found the crown two days after changed to 

 a deep orange colour. It was discovered near Bagneres de 

 Luchon, by Njcholas Le Quelt, so famed in ancient story 

 as a rhizotomist, and will grow any where, but has never 

 ripened seeds with us to my knowledge. 



Queltia Poculigera. MSS. Narcissus Poculiformis. 

 Prodr.p. 224. Narcissus totus albus maximus, calice mediocri 

 serotinus. Barrel. PI. p. 6*7. t. 948. Narcissus montanus sive 

 Nonpareille totus albus, &c. Park. Par. p. 72. cum Ic. Nar- 

 cissus oblongo calice. Pass. Hort. Vern. t. 20. 



An elegant species, the flower of which is delightfully fra- 

 grant, like Hyacinthw Mmcari : why that odour should have 

 been compared to musk I am at a loss to conceive, being 

 totally different. It grows wild in the Pyrenaean mountains, 

 from whence bulbs were brought here by Francis Le Veau, 

 whom Parkinson eulogises as " the honestest root-ga- 

 therer that ever came over to us/' Tradescant probably 

 purchased some of these, in whose garden at Lambeth, fifty 

 years afterwards, Dr. Uvedale met with it, as appears by 

 his catalogue. Dr. Uvedale gave it to Sherard, and from 

 the Eltham garden it was lastly distributed to most others of 



