32 REVIEW OF THE GENUS NAllCISSUS. 



The following is a detailed description of the typical form of each, 

 with its principal varieties and their synonyms : — 



1. N. BuLBOCODlUM (L. Sp. Plant, p. 417). — Bulb ovoid, ^-f 

 in. thick; leaves two or three to a scape, suhterete, 4-8 in. long, not 

 more than a line broad, bright green, generally rather shorter than the 

 scape ; scape 4-8 in. high, slender, terete ; flowering about London 

 late in April or early in May, and never bearing more than a single 

 flower, which is either ascending or horizontal, not drooping, with a 

 pedicel within the spathe 3-9 lines long. Perianth gradually widened 

 from the ovary to the mouth of the crown, 18 21 lines deep, exclusive 

 of the ovary ; the whole flower bright yellow, the lower part and the 

 divisions of the limb rather deeper than the rest, the tube and crown 

 very nearly equal in depth, the latter scarcely at all crisped, and very 

 indistinctly toothed at the throat ; the divisions of the limb ascending, 

 linear, a line to an eighth of an inch broad at the base, narrowed gra- 

 dually from the base to an acute point. Stamens, subbiseriate from 

 the base of the tube, the filaments filiform, reaching nearly or quite to 

 the throat of the crown and decidedly upcurved, like the style, which 

 is often slightly protruded. Anthers, linear, 2-2|- lines long. A na- 

 tive of Spain, Portugal, the opposite coast of Africa, and the south- 

 west of France as far north as Bordeaux. 



This, the " hoop petticoat," was divided into " species" by Herbert 

 as follows, and we give references to the figures and Haworth's and 

 some other synonyms ; but we fear that, even taking the plants as 

 slight varieties, they are barely distinguishable : — 



C. Bulbocodlimi, Herb. Amar. p. 297. — Size as described above; 

 corona slightly undulated, entire or slightly lobed ; style shorter than 

 the corona. Redoutc, Lil. t. 24. — C. lobulata and C. seroiina, Haworth, 

 Mon. p. 1 ; the latter figured Bot. Mag. t. 88 ; Sweet, Plow. Gard. ser. 

 2, t. 164. 



2. C. compicua, Herb, Amar. p. 298. — A robust form, with a slightly 

 repand corona and exserted style. Sweet, Flow. Gard. ser. 2, t. 326. — 

 N. aureus, De Cand. in Eed. Lil. vol, viii, C. gigas, C. conspicua, and 

 C. aurea, Haworth. 



3. C. tenuifolia. Herb. Amar. p. 298. — A slender form, with erect 

 shining leaves, a distinctly exserted style, and a distinctly lobed corona. 

 — N. tenuifoUus, Salisb. Prodr. p. 222 ; Red. Lil. t. 486 ; Sweet, Flow. 

 Gard. t. 114, C. tenuifolia and C, Bulbocodium, Haw. 



