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as " Eip Van Winkle." It is a double form of N. minor of gar- 

 dens, having narrow perianth lobes with crochet-hook-like 

 points. Planted on grassy banks on light stony soil, its flowers 

 are of a clear golden hue, and very distinct from all other 

 varieties. Mr. Barr found a pale double form of N. P.-N. var. 

 asturicus in 1888, in a perfectly wild state. The one double 

 Daffodil which is most distinct and puzzling of all others, is that 

 first figured in the great elephant folio of Basil Besler called 

 " Hortus Eystettensis," a sumptuous work published in 1613 at 

 Eichstadt in Bavaria. This is the variety we know as N. 

 Eystettensis in our gardens to-day. It differs from all other 

 double Daffodils known to me as being wholly composed of 

 perianth segments, superposed in six rows, there being no 

 coronal segments apparent as in all other " double " kinds. In 

 some gardens in Ireland this plant is plentiful, and most of us 

 owe our stock of roots to Miss White, of Charlville, Roscrea, 

 county Tipperary, where it has flourished for many years. It has 

 also been found naturalised in one or two places in Dorsetshire, 

 England, but the most singular point in its history is that its 

 normal or single state is quite unknown. Haworth thought 

 it was a " double " form of N. capax, that is to say, of the large- 

 flowered and most northern form of N. triandrus (called cala- 

 thinus), and found in some little islands (He de Glenans) off the 

 coast of Brittany. This we now know is not the case. Herbert 

 thought it a double phase of N. minor, but in leafage and time of 

 flowering it differs from any Daffodil known to me. Parkinson 

 tells us it " is not certainly known where his original should be : 

 some think it to be of France, others of Germany." Curtis, 

 when figuring N. tenuior in the " Botanical Magazine," t. 379, 

 thought this plant was a form of that variety, which he says he 

 saw " in a single, but mostly in a double state" in Maddock's 

 then celebrated nursery at Walworth, in May, 1794. This 

 doubled-flowered variety is alluded to by nearly all the old 

 writers, beginning with Lobel in 1581, and Gerard appears to 

 have received it from Jean Robin, of Paris, who obtained it from 

 near Orleans, but whether from a garden or wild is not so clear. 

 Its name of " Queen Anne's Daffodil " was no doubt originally 

 given in honour of Queen Anne of Austria, and not in compli- 

 ment to our own queen of the same name. 



The three or four double forms of N. incomparabilis are well 



