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are a good yellow externally, — I think 
we should consider it a feathered form 
of chrysanthiis var. coeriilesce?is. In the 
British Museum herbarium is a sheet 
of this plant collected by Maw in 1877 
on Mount Chamlijah, above 
Scutari, Constantinople, 
(No. 289). All show the 
black-spotted anthers, and 
though they vary consider- 
ably areclearly but oneform. 
Theyare poorly represented 
on Plate LIX. b. of Maw's 
monograph fig. 3 h, and re- 
ferred to on pp. 2 9 1 and 293 
as biflorics var. 7iubige?ius, 
I have growing here every 
intermediate form from al- 
most pure white with but 
slight lilac markings, 
through striped and fea- 
thered forms up to the rich- 
ly suffused Haarlem seed- 
lings, and with very rare 
exceptions they have the 
black spots on the anthers, 
so that unless we consider 
the Chamlijah plant as intermediate 
between and connecting bifloriis and 
chrysafithtcs — a step our present know- 
ledge does not warrant (for so far none 
of the seedlings are nearer to typical 
forms of^//f(9r//j" than the Chamlijah par- 
ents) — we mustregard it2iS2.c/irysanthus 
var. coerulescens in which the purple 
marking has broken up into featherings ; 
while the Haarlem seedlings, and mine 
of 1 90 1 , represent the extreme of purple 
suffusion as yet reached . 
E. AUGUSTUS BOWLES. 
Myddelton House, Waltham Cross. 
NARCISSUS, "REV. CHARLES 
WOLLEY DOD." 
The classification of this hybrid {Ajax 
X triavdrns) is somewhat difficult. If 
the parent plants are considered, this 
flower ought not to rank with the hi- 
comparabilis section, although in form 
it belongs to that class. It is a fine 
bold flower, with perianth of good 
substance and form. The somewhat 
goblet- shaped trumpet is elegantly 
frilled. This fine bicolor will take a 
high place among the standard Daflb- 
dils of the future. 
F. W. CURREY. 
Lismore, Ireland. 
