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4. C. obesa, Herb. Amar. p. 298. — More slender than the type ; 

 leaves drooping ; corona entire, inflated ; style exserted. — N. ohesus, 

 Salisb. Prodr. p. 222. N. inflatus, Haw. L. Trans, v. p. 243. 



The following are more striking varieties than any of the above : — 



5. N. nivalis, Graells, Indie. PL Nouv. p. 9. — Leaves 2-3, scape 

 not more than 3-4 in. high; perianth not more than 8-9 lines long 

 above the very shortly-stalked ovary, the divisions of the limb as long 

 as the faintly crenate corona ; the style, and usually both sets of sta- 

 mens, exserted. Spain. Bourgean, n. 2280. From this 0. heclraantJta, 

 Webb and Held, in Blanc. Exsic. n. 220, differs only by its sessile 

 ovary. 



6. C. Gradhii, Webb, in Bourg. Exsic. n. 2281. — Leaves 2-3, scape 

 4-6 in. long ; perianth an inch long above the ovary, the divisions 

 snbpatent, with a brown keel, which is decuiTent to the base of the 

 tube ; corona subentire ; style and longer stamens exserted. Spain. 



7. C. mouophylla, Durieu in Duchartre Rev. Bot. 1847, p. 1847 ; 

 N. Clnsii, Dunal, Mem. Acad. Sc. Mont. p. 9, t. 6. — Leaf very slender 

 (one-third of a line broad), usually solitary, ovary nearly sessile in the 

 spathe ; perianth nearly white, as is also the erenulate corona, 15-18 

 lines long above the ovary ; the style exserted. Algeria, Balansa, u. 

 235. 



II. N. Pseudo-Narcissus (L. Sp. Plant, p. 414). — Bulb ovoid, 

 1 or 1^ in. tliick; leaves five or six to a scape, glaucous, erect, Hat- 

 tish upwards, ecpialling or rather shorter than the scape at the time of 

 flowering, five or six lines broad. Scape about a foot high, with two 

 prominent edges, flowering in the middle of March, before any of the 

 other species. Flowers always solitary, nearly sessile, or with a very 

 short pedicel within the spathe. Flower 18-20 lines long above the 

 ovary, the obconical tube about \ in. deep, the divisions of the limb 

 more or less ascending, sulphur-yellow, paler than the crown, oblong- 

 lanceolate, 9-10 lines long, 5-6 lines broad at the base, the outer ones 

 rather blunter than the others, the crown just equalling the divisions, 

 deeper and more orange-yellow than the divisions, the mouth about an 

 inch across, slightly plicate and inciso-crcnate ; filaments uni-seriate 

 from the base of the tube, 7-8 lines long, flattened downwards, straight, 

 the antliers linear, 4 lines long. Style above an inch long, straight, 

 slightly exceeding the anthers. Extending as a wild plant from Swe- 

 den and England to Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Transylvania. 



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