the seed, from which the plants here figured were raised, had 
been obtained ; but, from the possibility of the admission of 
natural pollen in spite of all precautions, it was thought best 
not to broach therein suspicions which could not at that time 
be verified. The suspicion was that N. incomparabilis, or the 
genus Queltia of Haworth, in all its varieties, was made be- 
tween Ajax and N. poeticus ; N. odorus, or genus Phylogyne 
of Haworth, in all its varieties, between .Ajax and jonquill ; 
Q. Macleai, or Diomedes of Haworth, between Ajax and Her- 
mione ; N. Gracilis and tenuior, or Helene of Haworth, be- 
tween N. poeticus and jonquill; N. orientalis (his Schisanthes) 
between incomparabilis and Hermione ; Hermione bifrons and 
compressa between H. Tazetta and jonquill ; Hermione Ba- 
zelman major and minor, Cypri, flexiflora, and Trewiana, 
and the four-flowered N. biflorus of the Hort. Soc. between 
Hermione and N. poeticus ; and the result of experiments 
enables me to assert that those suspicions are now veri- 
fied as to the three first cases, and that I entertain no doubt 
concerning the latter. Bazelman minor evidently derives the 
orange margin of its cup from N. poeticus. Parkinson indeed 
mentions that incomparabilis produces rarely a few seeds, but 
he does not say, whether the seeds he saw were sown, or w r hat 
they produced. It is not meant to assert, that there is any 
physical impossibility in these cross-bred plants reproducing 
themselves by seed, but that their general habit is sterility, 
and that no such reproduction is known to have taken place, 
and that all must be expunged from the botanical catalogue 
of natural genera or species. 
Fig. 5. is the produce of the wild Yorkshire daffodil, A. 
pseudonarcissus, by pollen of N. poeticus, and is decidedly a 
variety of the plant called N. or Q. incomparabilis. Fig. 3 . 
is the produce of incomparabilis by the same N. poeticus, that 
is two generations from the daffodil by the poetic narcissus ; 
and in it the change is complete from the form of stamina in 
the daffodil to that in the true Narcissus, and it is evident, 
that one cross more (or at least two further crosses) would, out 
of the wild daffodil, produce the true Pheasant-eye Narcissus. 
The pollen of this doubly-crossed plant is also fertile, for, 
though I have never seen natural seed of N. montanus (of 
which the native place is uncertain, and which might perhaps 
be made between the wild N. dubius of France and Ajax mos- 
