Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... Order 2. IRIDACEJE. 1. IRIS, L. 1. I. ftetidissima, L. Native. English type. Area T). Range 1. Damp woods, very rare. Cowclose near Gateshead-(W. Robertson and John ThornhiLl!). In a wood north of Sunderland Bridge near Rushyford (W. Backhouse!). Jolby near Darlington (E. Robson. F.). Morden Carr, but near houses, and perhaps introduced (M. A. Lawson). 2. I. pseudacorut, L. Native. British type. Area C, N, D. Range 1. Common in boggy places, ascending the Wooler Water almost to Langlee-ford and the Coquet to Shillmoor (200 yards). 2. CROCUS, L. 1. C. vemus, L. Alien. In a field near Alnwick (T.). Established with C. aureus in the park at Seaton Delaval (W. H. Brown.) Order 3. AMARYLLIDACEiE. 1. NARCISSUS, L. 1. N. biflorus, Curt. Alien. In a field below Windy Edge near Alnwick (B. Embleton. T.). Gathered also by E. Robson near Dinsdale. 2. N. pseudo-narcissus, L. Native? English type. Area N, D. Probably wild in some of the stations, but not in any that we ourselves have had the opportunity of seeing. We should judge it, from the accounts we have received, to be so on the banks of the Derwent at Allansford. It is reported also in the Flora from meadows near Butsfield and Barley Haugh near Ebchester, and woods at Cocken and Witton-le-Wear. The common garden s plant is not the true pseudo-narcissus, but If. major, Curt., N. grandiflorus, Salisb. (Bot. Mag., t. 51), which has larger flowers, almost sessile in the spathe, a shorter tube, broader leaves, a less compressed stem, and the segments of the perianth similar in colour to and slightly shorter than the crown. 2. GALANTHUS, L. 1. 67. nivalis, L. Alien. Not unfrequent in plantations and near villages. Well established on the banks of a stream above Hawkhill Tile Sheds near Alnwick (T.)....