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HYBRID Narcissi. 
For the very curious information conveyed in the following 
pages, we are indebted to the Honourable and Very Rev. 
the Dean of Manchester, whose experiments on hybridizing 
plants have now assumed a precision and importance which 
could scarcely have been anticipated from the early researches 
into this subject. We particularly commend the facts here 
detailed to the attention of those Botanists who see a genus 
or species in any little variation from the habitual condition 
of a plant. 
Fig. ]. Narcissus, Diomedes, var. Criclitoni. Ex N. Ajace minore, (Bot. 
Mag. 6.) polline N. Hermiones sequilimbse, Melitensis (Herb. Am. pi. 
48.) ; scapo humili bifloro, stylo tubum superante corona incluso, fila- 
mentis tribus •§• unc. infra faucem tubi tribus medio propius insertis 
tenuibus, antheris tenuibus semuncialibus, perianthio luteo. Genus 
Diomedes, Haw. 
Fig. 2. Narcissus, Ajax, var. pallidus. Ex N. Ajace minore, polline N. Ajacis 
moschati. Perianthio subconcolore pallido. 
Fig. 3. Narcissus Spoffortliise; pedunc. f unc. tubo if unc. limbi lac. latis 
pallide sulphureis f unc., corona brevi if unc. -lata crenata plicata sub- 
sexlobata aurantiaca medio lutescente, stylo tubum sequante, filamentis 
adnatis, antheris tribus exclusis tribus semi-inclusis. Ex N. incompara- 
bili v. coronse margine aurantiaco (Queltia aurantiaca, Haw.) polline N. 
poetici v. stellaris. 
Fig. 4. Narcissus Spofforthise v. spurius. Ex eddem capsula cum preecedente ; 
corona lutea subsemunciali magis angustata limbi laciniis angustioribus 
lf-uncialibus. 
Fig. 5. Narcissus, Queltia, incomparabilis ; coronse margine aurantiaco. Q. 
aurantiaca, Haw. Ex N. Ajace pseudonareisso v. Eboracensi, polline 
N. poetici v. stellaris. Ex eadem capsula duse cor. marg. aurant. cseterse 
margine concolore ; Queltia aurantiaca et Q. incomparabilis, Haw. 
Fig. 6. Narcissus, Queltia, subconcolor ; ex N. Ajace minore, polline N. poe- 
tici v. stellaris. Tubo f unc. limbo unciali luteo, corona parum satura- 
tiore subsemunciali crenata. Ex eadem capsula plures, cum duabus 
coronse margine aurantiaco, altera perianthio et scapo majore. Genus 
Queltia, Salisb. 
These hybrid Narcissi have been raised with many others 
from seed at Spofforth, and are amongst those which have 
already flowered. Eight years ago a collection of the various 
August, 1843. 
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