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SEEDLING NARCISSI. 
Nat. Order. — Ajjajiyllidaceje. 
Generic Chaeacter. — Narcissus, Linnteus. — Perigonc co- 
rolline, superior, salver-shaped ; tube sub-cylindrical, straight ; 
limb six-parted, the lobes equal, spreading, or reflexed. Crown 
of the throat (or nectary) funnel-shaped, bell-shaped, or ro- 
tate, entire or lobed, shorter or longer than the tube. Stamens 
six, inserted in two rows at the summit of the tube of the peri- 
gone, below the crown, included ; filaments very short, free or 
adherent to the tube ; anthers oblong, incumbent. Ovary 
inferior, three-celled. Ovules numerous, in the central angle of 
the cells, in many rows, horizontal, anatropous. Style thread- 
like; stigma obtuse. Capsule membranous, obtusely three- 
sided, three-celled, loculicidally three-valved. Seeds numerous 
or few, somewhat globular, with a black, wrinkled testa. — Medi- 
terranean herbs, with tunicated radical bulbs ; the scape round 
or angular, spathe of one leaf, split in front ; flowers showy, 
white or yellow, very often nodding. — [JEndl. Gen.JPlant., 1289.) 
Narcissus AtritEO-TrNCTUs (Fig. 1). — Flowers large; seg- 
ments of the perianth twice as long as the cup, oblong-lanceo- 
late, spreading, sulphur-coloured ; cup almost cylindrical, 
yellow, faintly tinged with orange on the margin; spathe one- 
flowered, about as long as the pedicel. 
N. incomparabilis expansus (Fig. 2). — Flowers large; 
segments of the perianth oblong-obtuse, mucronate, plane, 
spreading, sulphur-yellow ; cup short, expanded, and indi- 
stinctly lobed, bright yellow ; spathe rather exceeding the 
pedicel. 
N. bicolor maximos {Fig. 3).— Flowers large; segments of 
the perianth oblong-ovate, spreading, pale yellow ; equalling 
the large deeper yellow, funnel-shaped cup, which is lobed and 
wavy at the margin ; spathe one-flowered, more than twice as 
loug as the pedicel ; leaves 1^ inch broad. 
E DESCRIPTION, HISTORY, &c— The annexed figures are representations of some other of 
' the Seedling Narcissi raised by E. Leeds, Esq., of Manchester, and referred to at p. 169. 
The varieties now published, though perhaps less strikingly novel in appearance than tbose just 
alluded to, are yet very handsome and showy plants, and quite different from any of the kinds 
at present in cultivation. The most remarkable is, perhaps, N. bicolor maximus, which has 
leaves resembling those of Pancratium maritimum more than the foliage of a Narcissus ; the 
flowers, too, are very large, though not possessing novelty of colour. In this respect, N. aureo- 
tinctus, with its pretty tinge of orange on the cup, is a desirable variety, though possessing a 
less perfect form than some others, as regards the perianth ; it is remarkable also for its straight- 
sided cup.- N. incomparabilis expansus is remarkable for the wide spreading form of its cup, 
and the broad flat lobes of its perianth. The variety N. bicolor maximus was obtained from 
bicolor, crossed either with maximus or propinquus ; N. aureo-tinctus Mr. Leeds believes to have 
been produced between propinquus and calathinus ; while N. incomparabilis expansus is the 
offspring of major crossed with poeticus. We are indebted to Mr. Leeds for the opportunity of 
publishing them. 
Culture. — Ample directions for cultivation will be found at p. 169 of the present volume. 
— M. 
P&S 
THE GENERA AND SPECIES OF CULTIVATED FERNS. 
By Mr. J. HOULSTON, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ; and Mr. T. MOORE, F.L.S., Sec. 
Sub-order— Poiatodiacej; : Tribe — Aspidifjk. 
Sect. I. — Symplophlebica*. Veins anastomosing. 
The affinities of the species comprised in the four preceding tribes are to be recognised without difficult; 
in almost any stage of the development of the plant ; hut, however simple and natural the common distinguishing 
character of the tribes may be, it is obvious that, if any part on which that character is constructed is absent, an 
attempt at a scientific or practical arrangement must necessarily be fallacious. This is here very clearly exempli- 
fied. The extensive tribe Aspidieee is characterized by having round or reniform, rarely oblong sori, furnished 
with an indusium, which is usually of the same shape. In habit and vascular structure, they have considerable 
analogy to those genera of Polypodies which have round sori ; but they are distinguishable from them by having 
an indusium. Among the numerous species, however, there are many that have the indusium fugacious, small, mem- 
branous, and scarcely visible, except witlrthc assistance of a lens, anil then only while the sorus is in its infancy ; 
and there are others in which it is deciduous, and soon thrown off by the swelling sori. This being so, if the fronds 
are not examined in an early stage, while the indusium is present, they would certainly be referred to Polypodies ; 
and it is probable that many herbarium species referred to the latter tribe belong properly to the present. 
EYPODERRIS, It. Brown (Aspidii, sp, ofAuthori). — Name derived from hypo, under, and dan's, a skin; 
alluding to the attachment of the indusium, which is partly under the sori. 
Sori round, irregular or uniserial on each side the primary veins, produced on the angles, or points of conflu- 
ence, of numerous veiiilets. Indusium small, calyciform, very membranous, irregularly herniated, and fimbriate 
at the margin, very distinct in an early stage, hut soon obliterated by the swelling sori. Primary veins pinnate ; 
venules compoundly anastomosing, producing from their sides variously directed free sterile veinlets, wl 
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