NARCISSUS JACOBEA. 
We are indebted to Edwards for the figure 
of this beautiful species of the Narcissus. It 
seems to have been greatly overlooked by bo- 
tanical writers, few of whom appear at all ac- 
quainted with it. Miller, who enumerated 
many species, does not mention it even by 
name ; though it had, previously to the pub- 
lication of Edwards, in 1748, been figured by 
his then late good friend, Dr. Dillcncus, 
Professer of Botany in the University of Ox- 
ford. See," says Edwards, " his Hortus 
Elthamensis, p. 19G." 
- The description of Edwards is very brief — 
As the print," says he, " expresses the 
shape of the flower beyond description, I shall 
be silent in that point. This is about the size 
of nature — [We have leduced it at least one 
i\i\ix\] — but some flowers are something larger, 
and their stalks longer. The six leaves of the 
flower are, within and without side, all of a 
most fine deep red or sanguine colour: tb.e 
bottoms 
