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3. N. poETicus. Poetic Narcissus. 
Naturalized in a field near Bentley, Doncaster, but certainly not 
wild. In Pickering castle yard tbe same. 
ORDER XC. LILIACE^. 
1. FRITILLARIA. 
1. F. MELEAGRis. Chequered Tulip. April. % 
Said to bave been found very sparingly in the meadows between 
Tadcaster and Newton Kyme. 
An interesting Spring flower, many beautiful varieties of which decorate our gardens ; it will grow well 
in any soil and requires no care. 
2. TULIPA. 
1. T. SYLVESTRis. Wild Tulip. 
In a field between Hexthorpe and Sprotbro’ broats, on the banks of 
the river Don ; covering a considerable space, but flowering only 
sparingly. 
The expensive varieties cultivated with such care by Florists, are not this specie.s, but Tulipa Gesne- 
riana, a native of the Levant. 
However much a bed of these gaudy flowers may dazzle the beholder, both by collective and individual 
beauty, they scarcely exceed in elegance our simple native, thus improved by Montgomery : — 
“ Here lies a bulb, the child of earth. 
Buried alive beneath the clod ; 
Ere long to spring, by second birth, 
A new and nobler work of God. 
’Tis said, that microscopic power 
Might through its swaddling folds descry 
The infant image of the flower. 
Too exquisite to meet the eye. 
This, vernal suns and rains will swell. 
Till from its dark abode It peep, 
Like Venus rising from her shell. 
Amidst the spring-tide of the deep. 
Three shapely leaves will first unfold. 
Then on a smooth elastic stem. 
The verdant bud shall turn to gold. 
And open in a diadem. 
Not one of Flora’s brilliant race, 
A form more perfect can display, — 
Art could not feign more simple grace, 
Nor Nature take one tint away.” 
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