olia_, we are inclined to
consider it as a species under the name of _cordifolia_. The parts of
fructification in the _crassifolia_ are apt to be preternaturally
increased.

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NARCISSUS BIFLORUS. TWO-FLOWER'D NARCISSUS.

NARCISSUS _biflorus_ spatha biflor, nectario brevissimo scarioso.

NARCISSUS pallidus circulo luteo. _Bauh. Pin. p. 50._

NARCISSUS medio luteus. _Dod. Pempt. p. 223. f. 2._

NARCISSUS medio luteus. Primrose Peerles, or the common white
Daffodil. _Ger. Herb. p. 110. f. 6._

NARCISSUS medio luteus vulgaris. The common white Daffodill, called
_Primrose Peerlesse_. _Park. Par. P. 74. t. 75. f. 1._

NARCISSUS latifol classis altera, lin. 1. Nascuntur, &c. ad
intellexisse. _Clus. Hist. Pl. rar. lib. 2. p. 156._

Both GERARD and PARKINSON describe and figure this plant, informing us
that it was very common in the gardens in their time; the former indeed
mentions it as growing wild in fields and sides of woods in the West of
England; the latter says he could never hear of its natural place of
growth. CLUSIUS reports that he had been credibly informed of its
growing wild in England; it probably may, but of this it remains for us
to be more clearly ascertained; it undoubtedly is the plant mentioned by
RAY in his Synopsis.

As it grows readily, increases in a greater degree than most others and
is both ornamental and odoriferous, it is no wonder that we meet with it
in almost every garden, and that in abundance, flowering towards the end
of April, about three weeks later than the angustifolia. It usually
produces two flowers, hence we have called it biflorus; it frequently
occurs with one, more rarely with three, in a high state of culture it
probably may be found with more; when it has only one flower it may
easily be mistaken for the _majalis_, but may be thus distinguished from
it; its petals are of a more yellow hue, the nectary is wholly yellow,
wanting the orange rim, it flowers at least three weeks earlier; but the
character, which by observation we have found most to be depended on,
exists in the flowering stem, the top of which in the biflorus, very
soon after it emerges from the ground, bends down and becomes elbowed,
as our figure represents; in the _majalis_, it continues upright till
within a short time of the flowers expanding.

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INDIGOFERA CANDICANS. WHITE-LEAVED