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NARCISSUS Sabini. 
Mr. Sahine’s Narcissus. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDER. Brown prod. vol. 1. 
NARCISSUS. Supra vol. 2. fol. 123. 
N. Sabini, spatha uniflora, scapo ancipite, nectario columnari erecto plicato 
eroso petalis imbricatis patentibus breviore, stylo columne eequali anthe- 
ris pauld longiore, tubo petalis subzequali. 
Folia pauca, pallide viridia, latiuscula. Scapus anceps, canaliculatus. 
Flores solitarii, cernui.. Pedunculus sesquiuncialis, erectus. Germen par- 
vum et tubus corolla cylindracei, subinfundibulares, omnino virides, petalis 
@quales, cum pedunculo angulum rectum formantes. Petala albida, lata, 
imbricata, nitida, ovata, cum nectario rectangularia, directione subirregulari. 
Nectarium luteum, plicatum, columnare, margine erosum, 9 lineas longum, 
petalis & brevius. Stamina breviora, stylus nectario equalis. Sabine MSS. 
Among the many different Narcissr which flowered last 
spring in the garden of the Horticultural Society, we no- 
ticed two, which appeared not only undescribed, but ex- 
ceedingly remarkable in general habit. They were part of 
an extensive arrangement of hardy bulbs, the basis of which 
was a collection presented to the Society by Mr. Sabine, its 
Secretary; a collection which was originally formed by 
him, in his garden at North Mimms, by many years re- 
search, and which has been materially increased since it 
came into the possession of the Society. 
Of one of these the opposite figure is from a drawing we 
made upon the spot. We have named it after the gentle- 
man to whom we and the public are indebted for the pos- 
session of it, and from whose extensive acquaintance with the 
genus we have derived our knowledge of the characteristic 
marks by which it is distinguished from its congeners. Its 
petals are those of N. bicolor; its tube of N. incompara- 
bilis; and its nectary of the last-mentioned species, be- 
come columnar and elongated; or of N. bicolor shortened. 
’ This species may therefore be considered to connect N. in 
comparabilis and N. bicolor, and consequently Mr. Salis- 
bury’s genera Queuria and Asax. Roots of it were origi- 
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