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Narcissus Tenuiorn. SLENDER NARCissUs. 
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——— Clafs and Order. 
Hexanpria Monocynta. 
Generic Charaéer. 
. Petalat equalia ; Nefario infundibuliformi i-phyllo; Sta- 
mina intra Nettarium;: — a 
Specific Charager. 
_ NARCISSUS eruior foliis lineari fubulatis canaliculatis, feapo 
_ unifloro, neétario brevi rotato plicato. 
In the month of May 1794, I firft obférved this Nartiffus 
in a fingle, but moftly in a double ftate, in the garden of Mr. 
_ Jamzs Mappock, Florift at Walworth, who obtained bulbs - 
of it from Holland, under the name of Narcijfus flore ful- 
_ phureo junquifolius } by the Dutch it appears to have been long 
cultivated: of what coiintry it is a native doés hot appear as 
ets there is little doubt of its being an European plant, it 
_ being found to be perfelly hardy ; as a {pecies it is certainly 
very diftinét, though inferior in fize and beaitty to many others. 
Root the fize of a {mall nutmeg, of a pale brown colour, 
leaves about a {pan long, very ndtrow, at their bafe fcarcely 4 
quarter of an inch wide, tapering gradually to a point, which is 
fomewhat obtufe, the outer fidé is convex and fomew hat fliited, 
the inner concave, riot glaucous; ftalk fomewhat longer than 
the leaves, tound, flightly flattened, efpecially on its upper part, 
fupporting on its fummit one flower (I have never obferved 
_inore) this poffeffes 2 confiderable fragrance, lefs powerful than 
that of the Fonguil, and more fo than that of odorus ; the fpatha 
is membranous, length of the peduncle, which is about an inch 
long; flower, when fully blown, ftanding horizontally ; tube 
greenifh; nearly cylindrical, fomewhat longer than thé pe- 
duncle ; limb flat; divided into fix fegments, of a pale-yellow — 
or fulphar colour, ovate, the three alternate fepments largett, 
each terminating in a fhort micro; netary yellow, in form 
like that of Aifforus, plaited, the margin of it as the flower ad 
vances becoming brown, the anther of the three longe 
flamina vifible in the mouth of it: oh gee 
