ing, as for instance jasminiflora between ampullacea and 
Aytoni, as well as many others which were figured by Andrews 
as new species from the Cape, but which will not be found 
amongst any specimens of African plants. The cultivator 
thought his plants would have been undervalued, if their true 
origin had been declared, and he would have lost the monopoly. 
It will be observed, that the three lowest figures 1, 2, and 
6, belonging to three genera of Haworth, are from sister 
flowers by the application of different pollen ; that, while fig. 5 
and its companions, which are not figured, furnish two species 
according to him out of one seed-pod, fig. 3 and 4 would have 
served him for two genera out of one seed-pod. The late Mr. 
Haworth’s last words to the writer were, “ I do not thank you 
for your mules the public will however perceive, that, instead 
of confounding the Botanist as he fancied, while they embellish 
the garden, they offer the surest test of the accuracy of scien- 
tific divisions. It is desirable to call the attention of the hum- 
blest cultivators, of every labourer indeed, or operative, who 
has a spot of garden, or a ledge at his window, to the infinite 
variety of Narcissi that maybe thus raised, and most easily in 
pots at his window, if not exposed too much to sun and wind, 
offering him a source of harmless and interesting amusement, 
and perhaps a little profit and celebrity. The six anthers 
should be carefully taken out before the flower, which is to 
bear the seed, blows. This may be done through a slit cut in 
the tube ; and the yellow dust from another sort must be ap- 
plied to the point of the style. The two-flowered N. biflorus, 
which has no ovules, may be an accidental mule, barren from 
extreme old age, (perhaps many centuries) as well as from 
hybridity. It will be remembered, that many years ago the 
writer asserted that Crinum amabile was a sterile mule. He 
can now state that, although it has been long introduced into 
Jamaica and flourishes there exceedingly, it is as sterile there 
as in the East, and has never been known to produce a seed. 
It was found impossible to make Mr. Plant’s alleged monsters 
vegetate at Spofforth. They turned mouldy on the first appli- 
cation of moisture, and no care could stop their decay. It is 
to be hoped he may have been more successful with the root 
he reserved. — W. H. 
