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not oftener ; for I have found this and many other bulbous- 

 rooted plants, to succeed better by not being too frequently 

 removed, their leaves sheltering one another in snows and 

 storms, so that if the ends are cut, the lower part remains 

 green. The figure in the Botanical Magazine is taken from 

 a weak specimen, this species producing generally from three 

 to five, and I have seen on a stem as many as seven flowers, 

 the crown of which is very exactly divided into six small 

 equal lobes. 



Philogyne Conspicua. MSS. Narcissus Calathinus «. 

 Kerin Bot. Mag. n. 934. exclusis synonymis. Narcissus odorus. 

 Decand.in PL Lil n. 157. cumlc.—Linn. Sp.Pl. ed. 2. p. 416. 

 auctoritate ejus speciminis. Narcissus elatior. Haworthin Linn. 

 Trans, v. 5. p. 244. Narcissus lobatus. Poiret. in Encycl. Bot. 

 v. 4. p. -47. Narcissus conspicuus. Prodr. p. 224. Narcissus 

 juncifolius major amplo calice luteus praecox. Theatr. FL 

 t. 22. optima. 



This species is not described by Clusius or Parkinson, 

 and the oldest specimen that I have seen in any herbarium, 

 was gathered in the Eltham garden, in 1720, not long after it 

 had been introduced by Dr. William Sherard : he pro- 

 bably sent, or brought it from some part of the Mediterranean 

 coast, for it grows wild in the Island of Corsica, but is not in- 

 digenous, that I can ascertain, in the north of Spain. The 

 first figure is in the Theatrum Flora above quoted, which was 

 published at Paris in 1622; but the plant had been lost 

 there for more than a century, as Monsieur Thouin told me 

 in 178(), and has only lately been again received in the Jar- 

 din des Plantes. In our country, by the liberal spirit of Mr. 

 Thomas Knowlton, it is now very common, having been 



