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colour, and a little hollow in the middle like the keel of a boat: the 

 stalk rises a foot and half high, having two sharp longitudinal angles: 

 at the top comes out one nodding flower, inclosed in a thin spathe : 

 the corolla is of one petal, being connected at the base, but cut almost 

 to the bottom into six spreading parts; in the middle is a bell-shaped 

 nectary, called by gardeners the cup, Avhich is equal in length to the 

 petal, and stands erect: the petal is of a pale brimstone or straw 

 colour, and the nectary is of a full yellow: the seeds are roundish, 

 black. It is a native of many parts of Europe, flowering in 

 March. 



There are varieties with white petals and a pale yellow cup, with 

 yellow petals and a golden cup, with a double flower; with three or 

 four cups within each other; Tradescant's large double; long-tubed 

 flowered; short-tubed; dwarf-stalked ; and the peerless Daffodil. 

 ISIany other varieties have likewise been noticed by writers. 

 The second species has a smaller and rounder bulb than the first: 

 the leaves are longer, narrower, and flatter: the stalk or scape does 

 not rise higher than the leaves, which are of a gray colour: at the top 

 of the stalk comes out one flower from the spadie, nodding on one 

 side: the corolla snow white, spreading open flat, the petals rounded 

 at the points: the nectary or cup in the centre is very short, and 

 fringed on the border with a bright purple circle: the flowers have 

 an agreeable odour, appear in JMay, and seldom produce seeds. It 

 is a native of Italy, &c. flowering in April. 



There are varieties with double white flowers, with purple-cupped 

 flowers, and with yellow-cupped flowers. 



The third usually produces two flowers : it frequently occurs, 

 however, with one, more rarely with three; in a high state of culture 

 it probablv may be found with more. When it has only one flower, 

 it may easil}' be mistaken for one of the varieties of the second sort, 

 but may be distinguished from it by the petals being of a yellowish 

 hue, or rather a pale cream colour; the nectary wholly yellow, not 

 having the orange or crimson rim, and by its flowering at least three 

 weeks earlier ; the top also of the flowering stem very soon after it 

 emerges from the ground bends down and becomes elbowed; where- 



