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NARCISSI. 
Narcissuses. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat.ord. AMARYLLIDACEX. $ HERMIONE. (AMARYLLIDS, Vegetable 
Kingdom, p. 143.) 
NARCISSUS.—Bot. Reg. 2. 123. 
Fig. 1. Nareissus deficiens; [nisi forsan N. obsoletus, v. deficiens], $ Her- 
mione. Bulbo parvulo ovato, foliis 1-2 viridibus erectis gracilibus tere- 
tibus synanthiis vel sepius hysteranthiis, scapo unifloro folio conformi, 
spathá marcescente pedunculum superante, germine viridi semiexcluso, 
tubo subcylindrico viridi sub-erecto vel paullum declinato semunciali, 
limbo patulo $ unc. longo albo basi intus lividé fuscescente, sepalis latio- 
ribus obtusis cum acumine, coronse deficientis rudimento imperfecto 
lividě fuscescente sspe dentibus sex minutis coronæ loco, antheris co- 
lore pallidé stramineo tribus exsertis tribus stylo profundiüs inclusis. 
Flore autumnali odoro. Ex Leucade prope castellum Alexandri. 
2. N. juncifolius ; Requien ; var. minor. Herb. Amar. $ Queltia; p. 
314. Bulbo parvulo, foliis viridibus gracilibus, scapo 1-3-floro, perian- 
thio luteo, limbo corona longiore.  Varietates sunt major, media, et 
minor. In Galliá meridionali. 
Fig. 3. Hermione obsoleta ? Haworth; 2-flora, corona obsoletä lutea. 
Parkinson, ** N. autumnalis medio obsoletus ; the white autumn daffodil 
with a sullen crown?” Specimen siccum in herbario dom. G. Bentham. 
Ex Tingide. 
Fig. 4. Tapeinagle humilis, mihi. Pancratium humile, Cav. Tapeinanthus, 
Herb. Am. Ex specimine sicco accurate delineata.—W. H. 
Fig. 
Narcissus, or Hermione deficiens, is an undescribed plant. 
It grows near fort Alexander, in Sta. Maura, where it passes 
for N. serotinus. I suspect that the plants found near 
Argostoli by the collector of the Unio, and those which are 
said by Bory to abound near Navarino, growing deep in the 
red earth, and called by them N. serotinus, will prove to be 
this plant. N. serotinus has linear leaves of a less bright 
green, the sepals more acute, and a short yellow crenulated 
eup, and has sometimes very odd knots on the scape, which 
Mr. Haworth, taking his view from coarse old engravings, 
mistook for articulations. They are oftener absent than 
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