known Narcissi was made there, for the completion of an 
arrangement of Amaryllidacese; and, from a desire of seeing 
the fruit of the intermediate kinds which formed the genera 
Queltia, Diomedes, Philogyne, Tros, Schisanthes, and the 
yellow portion of Helena of Haworth, application was made 
for seed to various cultivators, and it was found that no one 
had ever known a seed to have been produced by any one of 
the above-mentioned plants. The white-limbed species of 
Haworth’s Helena are small Italian local varieties of N. poe- 
ticus, from which by the pollen of jonquill it is presumed that 
the sterile tenuior and planicorona may have been produced. 
The seeds described, as those of N. gracilis, (Herbert Am. 
31 6.) proved to be jonquill seeds erroneously communicated 
by the cultivator. On further investigation of the subject it 
appeared that, although most of these plants had been culti- 
vated above 200 years, their places of abode were unknown 
to Clusius and Parkinson, and a suspicion arose that they 
were artificial breeds which some cultivator had imposed 
upon the public as mountain plants above two centuries ago, 
and an advertisement, stating that suspicion, and requesting 
a communication of their seeds, was published by the author; 
and, the seed of N. odorus being named in the list of seeds in 
the hot. gard. at Naples, application w r as made to Prof. Tenore 
for some. The result has been that, although some gentle- 
men in remote parts have kindly contributed bulbs of different 
sorts, no seed of any such Narcissus has been sent. Prof. 
Tenore answered, that, although named in the list, N. odorus 
bore no seed at Naples,* and Mons. Deslongchamps, though, 
amidst the information which he obligingly gave concerning 
the French Narcissi, he asserted that it was certainly indige- 
nous in France, admitted that he had never heard of its pro- 
ducing seed. The variety also, found in Madeira, grows 
under chesnut trees wfiich are not indigenous, and hears no 
seed. In the spring before the publication of Amaryllidaceae, 
* A later communication from Pr. Tenore alludes to the production of 
seed by N. odorus at some former period in the Neapolitan garden, but it 
does not appear to have been sown, nor is it clear whether the fact is certi- 
fied by his own recollection. He suggests that it might have been produced 
by the pollen of one of its parents, if the plant is an hybrid. He likewise 
states that Crocus Imperatonianus does not grow on the hedge-banks near 
Naples, and never descends lower than 2000 feet above the sea. W. H. 
