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hereof are scattered, and spread wholly, 
making it shew a faire, broad open flower; 
and sometimes the outer leaves stand 
separate from the middle trunke, which is 
whole and unbroken, and very thicke of 
leaves; and sometimes the middle trunke 
will be halfe broken ... as it is likewise 
seene in the small English kinde . . . this 
beareth no seed.”— Parkinson, p. 102. This 
Daffodil is common at Florence, from whence 
it may be supposed it was introduced into 
this country about the year 1620. The 
single form is to be found growing with it, 
but not abundantly. In England the small 
double native plant is scarce; whereas at 
Florence the large single native plant is 
scarce, and variable. Attention is particularly 
called to this variable character to account 
for differences in the double forms of this 
Daffodil; for example, there was this year 
exhibited at South Kensington, besides the 
long-trumpet double Telamouius in all its 
gradations, one with the trumpet shorter, 
thicker and lighter in colour, while the 
foliage was of a darker green. Was it 
Haworth’s Telamonius plena pallidus acumi- 
natus ? 
Plenissimds (John Tradescant’s great Dose 
Daffodil). “This Prince of Daffodils be- 
longeth primarily to John Tradescant, as the 
first founder thereof, that we know, and may 
well bee entitled the Glory of Daffodils.” 
The stalk, almost as high as Wilmer’s 
great Double Daffodil, “ bearing at the toppe 
one faire large great flower (before it breake 
open, being shorter and thicker in the middle, 
and ending in a longer and sharper point than 
any of the other Daffodils) very much spread 
open . . . and double as any Provence Rose.” 
— Parkinson, p. 102. This Daffodil is not 
much known, the one usually sold for it, viz., 
lohularis grandiplenus, is dwarfer. 
*Plenus laciniis pallidis (the great Double 
Yellow Spanish* Daffodil), the stalk almost 
as high as Wilmer’s great double Daffodil, 
“ bearing one double flower at the toppe, 
always spread open . . . the outermost leaves 
whereof being of a greenish colour at first, 
and afterwards more yellow, doe a little turn 
themselves back to the stalk . . . Those leaves 
that stand in the middle are smaller, and some 
of them show as if they were hollow trunked 
... 1 think none ever had this kind before 
myselfe, nor did I myself ever see it before 
the year 1618, for it is of mine own raising, 
and flowering first in my own garden.”—■ 
Parkinson, p. 103. 
*Gallicus major flore-pleno (the great 
double French Daffodil). “The stalk riseth 
up not much higher than the smaller French 
kinde, but a little bigger, bearing at the top 
one great double flow'er, which when it is 
fully and perfectly blowne open (which is but 
seldome ; for that it is very tender, the leaves 
being much thiner, and thereby continually 
subject, upon any little distemperature of the 
time, to cleave so fast one unto another, that 
the flower cannot blow open faire) is a faire 
and a goodly flower, larger by halfe than the 
smaller kinde, and fuller of leaves, of the 
same pale whitish yellow or lemon colour . . . 
not set in the same order of rows .... but 
more confusedly together.”— Parkinson, p. 
103. 
*LoBtJLARis plenus (the common deep yellow 
double Daffodil) of Haw'orth. Can any one 
settle what this is ? Haworth confuses 
Lohularis and Ohvallaris. He calls Lohularis 
the Tenby Daffodil, and Ohvallaris the short- 
tubed spreading crown, referring it to tbe 
figure in the Pot. Mag., t. 1381, which is 
the plant growing wild at Tenby. Ohvallaris 
must therefore be accepted as the Tenby 
Daffodil, and Lohularis, as determined by tbe 
Daffodil Conference, a form of typical Pseudo- 
Narcissus. 
The two following are comparatively dwarf grow¬ 
ing, and are supposed to be the double of the plant 
Lohularis, ranged under Pseudo-Narcissus :— 
Pseudo-narcissus lobularis plenus (the dwarf 
double light yellow). 
Grandiplenus (the dwarf double light yellow). 
This flower spreads to a large size when fully 
open, and a fine specimen will show as many 
as 10 or 12 centres from which petals or 
organs radiate, thus having the appearance 
of 10 or 12 small Narcissi bound together. 
Nanus plenus, said by Dr. Brown, of Hull, to 
have been raised by him from seed, one bulb 
only, the flower of which was sent by him to 
the Conference. One bulb also found amongst 
bulbs of Nanus from Lincolnshire by Mr. T. 
S. Ware. So far as is known these are the 
only two bulbs of this form. 
Capax plenus (Queen Ann’s double Daffodil), also 
called eystettensis. Haw'orth supposed it 
was the double of Calathinus, Herbert that 
it was the double of Minor. Parkinson 
places it with the trumpet section under the 
name Pseudo-Narcissus gallicus minor flore- 
pleno, but is doubtful, and remarks on it as 
follows ; “ The rootes of this lesser French 
kinde (if I may lawfully call it) .... a bastard 
Daffodill. I somewhat doubt thereof, in that 
the flower . . is not made after the fashion . . . 
of the other bastard Daffodills, but .... 
resembles the form of the double white 
Daffodill.bearing one faire double 
flower ... of a pale lemon colour, consisting 
of 6 rows of leaves, every row growing smaller 
than the other unto the middle, and so set 
and placed, that every leafe of the flower doth 
stand directly almost in all, one upon or 
before another into the middle, where the 
leaves are smallest, the outermost being the 
greatest.”— Parkinson, p. 105. 
CeRNUUS FLORE ELEGANTI8SIME PLENO (the double 
white trumpet Daffodil). 
CERNUUS FLORE ELEGANTISSI5IE PLENO BICpCTUS 
(the double white trumpet Daffodil with the 
divisions of the perianth in duplicate). 
Mediicoronati. 
Incomparabilts aurantius PLENUS (Butter and 
Eggs). Of this there are at least two varieties 
differing in the colour of the flower, and the 
shade of green in the foliage. One appears 
to have come from a pure full yellow, the 
other from a sulphur yellow, and for observa¬ 
tion it is suggested that the yellow more 
generally gives the full rose-like flower, and 
the sulphur the full cup of florets with 
the divisions of the perianth free as in 
the single. It is moreover suggested that 
from this latter the occasional single floweri 
come. 
Albus plenus aurantius (Eggs and Bacon, 
Orange Phoenix). Of this it has been_ said 
there” are two varieties, to be distinguished 
by the greater or lesser brightness of the 
orange cup. 
