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NARCISSUS VIRIDIFLORUS. GREEN 
AUTUMNAL JONQUIL. 
Generic: Charatter —Vide N** 924, 925+ 
Specific Charatter and Synonyms. 
NARCISSUS vwiridiflorus ; (uni-pluriflorus; filam. aduata ; anth. 
3 tubo, 3 corona inclufe ;) foltis uno-pluribufve, junceis, 
tereti-attenuatis, filtulofis, tevibus, fcapo-fimili fubifometro 
tardioribus; pedicellis inaequalibus, ereétis, a brevioribus . 
ad pluries tubo longiora ; corolla geniculato-nutante ; ger- 
mine tubo pluries breviore ; limbo ftellato, laciniis divari- 
catis, zequalibus, linearibus,. attenuatis, planisy- tubo bre- 
vioribus; corona breviffima, cupulato-rotata, fexcrenato- 
incifa, fegmentis obtufis, fubemarginatis. G. 
NARCISSUS viridiflorus ; Schoufboe. Marok. in det danfke 
videnfkabers-felfkabs fkrivter. 1800. 157. tab. 2. Id. germamice 
a Markuffen. 142. tab. 2. Roth. neue beyir. zur Botan, th. 1. 
189. Id. anglice a Kenig & Sims, in Ann, Bot. 2. 26. 
NARCISSUS juncifolius autumnalis flore viridi. Park, Parad, 
PD. 94, tab. 93. fig. 6. 
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Descr. Bulb roundifh with brown membranous: coverings ; 
* eaves 1 to feveral, a foot or more long, as well as the /cape 
nearly of the fame fize as in the common garden Jonquil ; 
Jpathe lanceolately convolute, and (in {pecimens that have feveral. 
flowers) fhorter than the longer peduncles ; corolla and crown of an’ 
uniform afh-green colour, fegments about fix lines long and 
one broad ; /y/e even with the longeft ftamens ; /igmas 3 ; {cent 
like that of the common Jonquil. | 
Parkinson, by whom this rare and fingular coloured 
{pecies was cultivated amongft us nearly two centuries back, has 
been the firft to record it. Subfequently to him, we do not 
find that it has been noticed, until enrolled under its pre- 
fent title in “ The Obfervations on the Vegetables of Morocco” 
by Mr. Scuoussoz, a Danifh Botanift, who found it growing 
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