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and often ripened seeds. Its green leaves, and peculiarly 

 fragrant flowers, shew its near affinity to Bifrons. 



Hermione Stylosa. MSS. Narcissus Italicus. Kcr m 

 Bot.Mag. n. 1188. cum Ic. bond. Narcissus sulphureus major. 

 Park. Par. p. 79 



A tender species, hardly worth cultivating here ; for its 

 flowers have a sickly hue, as if they had been deprived of 

 light, changing, as Parkinson remarks, to " a more sullen 

 yellow colour/' and they come out later than most of the 

 others, which is no recommendation in forcing. I believe it 

 grows wild in the Island of Cyprus. 



Hermione J asminea. MSS. Narcissus Papyraceus. Ker 

 in Bot. Mag. n. 947. cum Ic. exclusis synonymis prater ante- 

 penultimum. Narcissus albus flore minore jasmine odore. 

 C. Bauh. Pin. p. 50. Alius prseterea, &c.fragrantiam jasmini, 

 &c Clus. Hist. PI. lib. 2. p. 155 * 



This is likewise tender, but so beautiful, that it deserves all 

 the care and labour a gardener can bestow. The leaves are 

 very glaucous, forming a strong contrast to those of other 

 plants, and the flowers are produced in large bunches, their 

 delicate snow-white petals hanging lightly in the air, which 

 they fill with perfume, resembling those of Jasmine. In 

 naming it therefore, instead of our shopmen's vulgar compa- 

 rison of Paper White, I have adopted Clusius' more appro- 

 priate one, which is in fact likewise a specific character. It is 

 probably wild near some of the coasts of Asia Minor, having 

 been sent from Constantinople to Brussels in 1597 ; but the 

 Dutch florists never succeeded in cultivating it, and we are 



* This species probably grows wild near Gibraltar, from whence Mr. Thomp- 

 son brought many bulbs of it, which were lately sold by auction in King-street, 

 Covent Garden. 



