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This pale yellow flower, which I ga- Afcr- 
thered at the corner of the wood, you '$" 
fee, has fix ftamina and one pijlillum: 
therefore it is of the Clafs Alexandria 
and of the Order Monogynia. The petela 
are fix, and the calyx is a fpatha. Now 
confult your Flora Cantabrigienjis, and 
you will find but two genera in this 
Clafs and Order whofe calyx is a fpatha, 
or fheath, viz. Allhtm and Narctffiis. In 
the firft of thefe, \hefpatha contains fe- 
veral flowers: in the plant in your 
hand, it includes but one : therefore it 
is the latter. And as there is in this 
county but onejpecies of this genus, you 
cannot miftake in calling it the Nar- 
ci/us pfeudo-narciflus, or Englifh Daffo- 
dil. Mr. Relhan found it at Whitwell* 
near Coton, and at Whittlesford. 
Linnseus enumerates 14 fpecies of Nar~ 
dj/us. In number 6 1 of the Botanical Ma- 
gazine, you will fee another fpecies of this 
plant, which, the author obferves, has been 
overlooked by Linnseus. He calls it the in- 
comparabilis, after our ancient botanift Par- 
kinfon. There is alfo a tolerable wopden 
reprefentation of it in Gerarde, who calls 
it 
