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donarcissus, and I am inclined to think it may be 
Mr. Haworth’s Nanus. The variety Eng-1. Bot. t. 17. 
I suppose, has smoother capsules than that which 
is found in Yorkshire, hut I have not had an oppor- 
tunity of comparing them. Haworth enumerates 
three shades of colour, besides two double varieties, 
and his A. serratus and praecox are two more. A 
reference to plate 40. f. 5, 6, 7, 8. which represent 
four varieties that grew in the same wild sod of 
about 16 inches diameter, taken up at random in a 
pasture at Spofforth before the flowers were blown, 
and exhibit great diversity of proportions, espe- 
cially the limb longer and shorter than the tube, 
and some difference of colour, are sufficient to shew 
the futility of the features by which the species of 
Haworth are distinguished. Fig. 5. and 6. are 
from flowers which had been pressed under paper 
before the outline was made, and the apparent 
width of the tube must not be compared with 7 and 
8, which had not been pressed, but 5 may be com- 
pared with 6, and 7 with 8, and perfect reliance 
may be placed on the exact correctness of the out- 
line. All had the same wrinkling of the immature 
capsule. I entertain doubts whether any plant of 
this genus was originally indigenous in Great Bri- 
tain. They seem to me to have remained in the 
soil in the site of old cottage gardens long de- 
stroyed, and to have spread wherever a root may 
have happened in the course of centuries to esta- 
blish itself, but I cannot pretend to assert that such 
is the case. 
Var. 3. Nobilis. — Haw. Pseud. Red. Lil. 158. Ander- 
soni. Sabine MS. Limb more patent ; scent un- 
pleasant ; tube about f of an inch, cup long, 
irregularly lobed, plaited, crenulate, a little re- 
curved ; segments equal to the cup, rather acute, 
tortuous ; sepals fths wide, petals not \ ; style 
1 1-1 6ths shorter than the cup; peduncle 5-16ths 
long ; germen ^ ; leaves half an inch wide, a little 
glaucous. 
Var. 4. Telamonius. — Haw. This agrees with the other 
varieties in having the limb paler than the cup, the 
