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and varieties all told, as compared with 132 species and varieties 

 in 1888. 



Again, in the third, or parvi-coronati, section in 1871 there 

 are only 28 kinds (including N. Tazetta), as against 74 varieties 

 in 1888. 



Thus in 1888 we find a total of 315 varieties, as contrasted 

 with 54 varieties all told in 1871. 



But there are at least 500 distinct species and their varieties 

 in cultivation to-day, the lists of 1871 having been swelled 

 partly by wild plants introduced from abroad, but mainly by the 

 enormous influx of garden seedlings from the Leeds, Backhouse, 

 and other collections in England, and a few garden varieties 

 from the Emerald Isle. 



Popular Names of Sections. 



I am very much interested in the question of popular names, 

 and often regret to hear the popular names, as applied to the 

 three great sections of the Narcissi, mixed up in a haphazard 

 kind of way. A Daffodil, for example, is a kind of Narcissus, 

 but a true Narcissus is not a Daffodil. The true Daffodils are 

 the large trumpet Narcissi, which Haworth included in his 

 genus Ajax. The " Hoop Petticoats," or Corbularias, are 

 rush-leaved Daffodils. 



The true Narcissi have long and slender tubes to their flowers, 

 and their stamens are inserted near the mouth of the tube in 

 two series ; their filaments are very short, so that the anthers 

 seem to be sessile ; while in the obconical tube of the Daffodil 

 the stamens are in one series, and the anthers are borne on long 

 stalks or filaments, which are inserted low down inside the tube 

 near the seed-vessel or ovary. 



Then the "Jonquil" Narcissi are those true species and 

 varieties of Narcissi which have slender green and rush-like leaves. 



Seedlings and Hybrids, with Notes on the Principal Baisers. 



When we come to consider the seedling and the hybrid 

 Narcissi we enter upon enchanted ground ; and it is curious to 

 find that the very first variety ever reared from seeds with the 



