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Narcissus Biflorus. Two-FloWer'd 



Narcissus. 



NARCISSUS bijkrus fpatha biflor, ne&ario breviffimo fca- 

 riofu* 



NARCISSUS palliJfc circulo luteo. Bauh. Pinl p. $0. 



NARCISSUS medio luteus. Dod. Pempt. p. 223. /. 2. 



NARCISSUS medio luteus. Primrofc Peerles, or the com- 

 mon white Daffodil. Ger. Herb. p. 110. f. 6. 



NARCISSUS medio luteus vulgaris. The common white 

 DafFodill, called Primrqfe Peerlejje. Park. Par. 



p-n- 1- 75-f- 1- 



NARCISSUS latifol claffis altera, lin. 1. Nafcuntur, &c. ad 

 intellexiffe. Chif. Hiji. PL rar. lib. 2, p. 156. 



Both Gerard and Parkinson defcribe 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 fides of woods in the Weft of England ; the latter 

 fays he could never hear of its natural place of growth. Clu- 

 sius 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 bis Synopfis. 



As it grows readily, increafes in a greater degree than mod 

 others, and is both ornamental and odoriferous, it is no wonder 

 that we meet with it in almoft every garden, and that in abun- 

 dance, flowering towards the end of April, about three weeks 

 later than the anguftifolia. It ufually produces two flowers, 

 hence we have called it biflorus ; it frequently occurs with 

 one, more rarely with three, in a high ftate of culture it pro- 

 bably may be found with more ; when it has only one flower 

 it may eafily be miftaken for the majalis, but may be thus 

 diftinguifhed from it ; its petals are of a more yellow hue, the 

 nectary is wholly yellow, wanting the orange rim, it flowers 

 alfo at leaft three w T eeks earlier; but the character, which by 

 long obfervation we have found moft to be depended on, exifts 

 in the flowering Item, the top of which in the biflorus, very foon 

 after it emerges from the ground, bends down and becomes 

 elbowed, as our figure reprefents ; in the majalis, it continues 

 upright till within a fhort time of the flowers expanding. 



