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Lago Maggiore resembling rugilobus, which is probably a develop- 

 ment of this variety. The largest I have seen came from the 

 neighbourhood of Bagneres de Bigorre, and of Luchon, where 

 it has a range reaching to G,000 or 7,000 feet, being the highest 

 Daffodil except perhaps section 4. Importations to England come 

 mostly from the valley of Gavarnie, where its size is smaller. In 

 some parts of the Pyrenees it seems to mix with the local dis- 

 color forms, which then cease to be uniform in character, 

 giving rise to the mixtures known as variformis, which afford 

 ground for a separate study themselves. In other places forms 

 of pallidas seem to take part in the crosses. Such a mixture as 

 this is very rare in nature. We find in general that in each wild 

 habitat uniformity is the rule ; and we should infer that the 

 species had adapted itself in habit and colour in the course of 

 long ages to the surrounding circumstances of soil and climate. 

 Still we are met by paradoxes, for if we try to recognise what was 

 the original type, we might suggest the high mountain form 

 muticus, with its robust habit and simple crown ; but side by 

 side within a few miles at the same elevation we find the delicate 

 and slender Daffodil known as moschatus. But moschatus grows 

 in peat soil and muticus in loamy soil, and perhaps this alone 

 may account for the difference. 



But though uniformity of flower and habit is the rule 

 in each wild habitat and in each artificial habitat where 

 only one variety has been planted, the case is quite different, 

 as I have already told, where two or more varieties have met 

 or have been planted together. During a long and fruitless 

 search for an albino wild English Daffodil — an accidental seedling 

 with a white flower, such as we often find in Scillanutans, Cam- 

 panula rotundifolia, and of yellow flowers in Verbascum nigrum — 

 I heard of two places widely apart where common wild Daffodils 

 grew mixed with white-flowered forms. Every shade of inter- 

 mediate colour and form was to be found amongst them, but a 

 careful investigation satisfied me that they owed their origin to 

 the white variety of pseudo-narcissus having been planted 

 amongst the typical wild form. These had crossed and seeded, 

 and some of the seedlings had exactly the form of the typical wild 

 variety, but the colour was pure white. 



The results of raising seedlings where a variety of trumpet 

 Daffodils are grown together are now so well known that I need 



