ARRANGEMENT OF THE PARTS 01 THE FLOWER. 463 



superposition of whorls does really occur. A marked instance of 

 this is afforded by the monstrous Daffodil called in gardens Nar- 

 emus Eystettensis. This Narcissus is mentioned in Mr. Bur- 

 bidge's monograph on Narcissus, where references to Herbert and 

 Haworth are given. It is also well fignred in the work just 

 cited*, and was described by several of the older botanical writers, 

 whose descriptions are noteworthy as showing that the morpho- 

 logical peculiarities of the plant were recognized by those ob- 

 servers!. 



There are also other monstrous Daffodils in common cultivation 

 in the country with a similar arrangement of parts, although from 

 various mutations and substitutions of one organ for another 

 the true position of the parts is not at once obvious. Such 



* Burbidge, ■ The Narcissus/ etc., with coloured plates of all known species 



W75, p. 27, tab. x. D. 

 t Lobelius (1581) figures the plant under the name Narcissus Ixtteus multiplici 



Are in his Plantarum seu Stirpium Icones. His figure was apparently copied 

 by many later authors. 



Dodonasus, in his Stirpium Historian Pemptadis secunda? lib. ii. p. 227, c. 

 icon. (1583), describes and figures the same plant under the title Narcissus sil- 

 vestris multiplex, and also alludes to a double white Narcissus to be hereafter 

 mentioned. "Contingit vero," says Dodonseus, "et huic quod aliis quandoque flori- 

 bus et candidis Narcissus, accidit ut, videlicet, floris foliola multiplicentur et talis 

 quidem flos medio calyce caret compluribus foliolis medium occupantibus. Folia 

 autem ac bulbi cum alternis conveniunt ; flos quoque totus luteus." 



Dalechamp, Hist. Gen. Plant, ii. p. 1523 (1580), also alludes to the plant as 



•^. luteus multiplex Dodonaei. 



Our own. Gerard, writing in 1597, in his Herball, p. 115, gives a figure (appa- 

 rently reproduced from Dodoens or De l'Obel) of tlie double yellow Daffodil, 

 which he says he received from Robinus, of Paris, who procured it by means of 

 Wends from Aurelia and other parts of France. 



Clusius (1601) figures in his Kariorum plantarum Historia, p. 110, the 

 Narcissus of which we are now speaking under the head of Pseu do- Narcissus 

 plenoflore .... "medio calyce caret, et ejus loco plurima folia externis illis 

 omnino similia et pallida habet." By " calyce " the author means what we 

 should now call the corona. A similar variety probably of what is now known 

 as Narcissus poeticus is mentioned by the same author as Narcissus plenusflore 



albo. 



Besler, in his < HortusEystettensis,' (1613) tertius ordo, fol. 3, ii., gives an ex- 

 cellent figure of this Narcissus under the name of N silvestris stellatus, with this 

 description :— « Qui decussatis florum foliis, uno eaule prodit acutioribus sub 

 luteis N. silvestris et stellatm hie nominatur inodorus, habens oblonga carinata 

 r otiindiora et angusta folia ; bulbum cepaceum." 



montanus 



--"ucruwiuonianus, m rozo, repeal ea uaoiaii iiguro ai*« uk»*i»vu*~ *~~ |PMMW 

 as "Josepbstablen." The same author in hisNieuwKreuterbuch, lib. 2, p.l003(cd. 



