132 HEXANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Narcissus. 



very shallow yellow cup, the border white internally j of a beau- 

 tiful crimson next ; and at the extreme edge brownish, filmy, 

 and minutely crenate. Sometimes, though very rarely, there are 

 2 flowers. A noble double variety is frequent in gardens, as 

 well as the more elegant single kind, the real Narcissus of the 

 Greek writers, clearly described by Dioscorides. 



2. N. biflorus. Pale Narcissus. Primrose peerless. 



Flowers in pairs. Cup of the nectary very short, depressed; 



membranous and crenate at the margin. Leaves acutely 



keeled ; their edges inflexed. 

 N. biflorus. CmUMag.tA^I . Wilkl Sp. Pl.v. 2. 39. Fl.Br.3b4. 



Engl. Bot. V. 4. t. 276. With. 332. 

 N. poeticus, Hiids. 141. Wade Dubl. 06. 

 N.n. 1250/3. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 122. 



N. pallidus circulo luteo. Bauh. Pin. 50. Rudb. Ehjs.v.2.57 . f.9. 

 N. medio luteus. Dod. Pempt. 223. f. Ger. Em. \24.f. Dalech. 



Hist. 1518./. 1. 

 N. medio luteus vulgaris. Raii Syn. 371. 

 N. albidus, medio luteus, cum aliquot floribus. Batch. Hist. v. 2. 604 ./. 



In sandy fields. 



Near Hornsey church. Sherard. On a rabbit-warren at Shorne, 

 Kent. Mt. J. Payer. About Berkhamstead, Herts. Mr. G. An- 

 derson. Common in meadows about Dublin. Mr. De Luc. 



Perennial. April, May. 



Clearly distinguished from the foregoing, with which Mr. Hudson, 

 like Haller, always confounded it, by the acute keel, and straight 

 sides, of the leaves, v/hose edges moreover are inflexed, not re- 

 curved. The /lowers are smaller, usually 2, rarely solitary, some- 

 times 3. Petals of a pale sulphur-colour. Border of the nec' 

 tary white, crenate. 



The scent is less agreeable than the former. Both are almost 

 equally common in gardens, but the biflorus is seldom seen double. 



3. N. Pseudo-narcissus. Common Daffodil. 

 Flowers solitary. Cup of the nectary bell-shaped, erect, 



crisped, with six marginal segments ; its length equal to 



that of the ovate petals. 

 N. Pseudo-narcissus. Linn. Sp. PI. 414. Willd. v. 2. 35. Fl. Br. 



355. Engl. Bot. v.\.t.\7. Hook. Scot. 100. Btdl. Fr. t.3S9. 

 N. n. 1252. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 123. 

 N. sylvestris pallidus, calyce luteo. Bauh. Pin. 52. Raii Syn. 371 . 



Rudb. Elys. V.2. 70. f.8. 

 Narcissus. Brunf. Herb. v. 1. 129./. 1. 

 N. luteus. Trag. Hist. 757./. 



N. luteus sylvestris, Dod. Pempt. 227./. 1,2. Dalech. His f.] 523. f. 

 N. tertius. Camer. Epit. 953./. 



