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culls croceo-cinctus. They must be nearly allied to 
this plant ; and perhaps they might be separated 
without impropriety from poeticus, under the name 
exiguus. 
The seeds of Gracilis, v. princeps and tenuior, are less 
round than those which 1 have seen of Poeticus, namely, re- 
curvus and stellaris, and, as I can judge by comparison of 
the ovules, grandiflorus, angustifolius, majalis, and patellaris. 
I did not inspect the ovules of Verbanensis, and although it 
has ripened seeds at Bolton Percy, they had been mislaid, and 
I have seen none. Judging from the insufficient view I have 
been able to obtain of the seeds of some of the Narcisseae, 
and the ovules of others, I believe it will be found that each 
genus embraces a certain range of outward appearances in 
the seed, and that the differences of the seed will establish 
clearer limits to the species. There is a like diversity of seed 
in Gladiolus, by which l can perceive in the produce of cross- 
bred plants of that genus, even the most remote affinity to 
G. tristis. To ascertain exactly what diversity in the outward 
appearance of seeds is compatible with generic identity is 
a point which requires to be deeply investigated, and we must 
look to hybridizing experiments, as the test which must estab- 
lish the accuracy of any surmises on that subject. 
Haworth’s genus Helene is a specific description of the 
pale yellow Narcissus gracilis, with its varieties tenuior and 
planicorona, with which he absurdly unites the small varieties 
of Narcissus poeticus, such as Verbanensis, which may possibly 
be separable as a species, but which it is preposterous to refer 
with gracilis to another genus, because their leaves are nar- 
row ; he further adds to them, pumilus of Redoute, which I 
have never seen, but which, in the absence of more accurate 
knowledge, seems to me, knowing nothing of the structure 
of its stamens, referable to Queltia. 
79. Hf.rmione. — Style straight, slender ; filaments conniving, 
with a short curved point, alternately inserted ; the 
sepaline at the mouth of the tube, decurrent, scarcely 
partible from it, attached to the middle of the anthers; 
anthers after inversion acute-oval, incumbent, versa- 
tile. (Capsule erect ; tube slender, cylindrical, en- 
larged at the mouth ; cup shorter than the tube or 
limb.) Observ. I had found seeds of Hermione to be 
smooth, shining, compressed, with rounded back, an- 
