31 REVIEW OF THE GENUS NAUCISSUS. 



Of this, the Daffodil, there are five well-marked varieties, whii;h 

 were known to, and described and named by Linnaeus, and which keep 

 up their characters well enough under cultivation to stand as species 

 for all garden purposes, as follows : — 



1. Pseudo- Narcissus, L., the ordinary average form of whicli we 

 have described above, Eeicli. Germ. t. 816. — Ajax Pseudo-Narcissus 

 of Herbert and Kunth ; A. Pseudo-Narcissus, Haworth (Eiig. Bot. t. 

 17). A. serratus,}la\y. A. nobilis, Haw. (Red. Lil. t. 158). A. Te- 

 lavioiiius, Haw. (Herb. Amar. t. 38, f. 7.) A. lobnlaris, Haw. (a form 

 with a more spreading mouth to the crown, with six regular rounded 

 lobes a quarter of an inch deep). A. rucjilohus and A. Cambricus, Haw. 

 (near the last). A. muiicus, J. Gay, Bull. Bot. Soc. France, vol. vii. p. 

 308 (divisions of tbe limb longer in proportion to the tube). 



2. Major, L, Sp. Plant, p. 415. — Larger in all its parts thqn the 

 last ; the leaves 6-8 lines broad, the flower 2-2^ inches long above 

 the ovary ; the divisions of the limb twice as long as the broadly ob- 

 conical tube, the same colour as the crown, which slightly exceeds 

 them, and spreads more at the throat (in an extreme specimen that lies 

 before us whilst we are writing, \\ inch broad). Reich. Germ. t. 817, 

 Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 51. — A. luteus. Herb, and Kunth. A. maximus, 

 Haw. (N. maximus, Don, Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, t. 286). N. 

 ffrandifiorus, Salisb. Prodr. p. 221. A. propinquus, Haw. (Bot. Mag, 

 t. 1301, upper figure). A. obvallaris, Haw. (Bot. Mag. t. 1301, lower 

 figure). A. sjmrius, Haw. 



3. Minor, L. Sp. Plant, p. 415. — Smaller in all its parts than tlie 

 type ; the whole plant when cultivated not above 6 or 8 in. high ; the 

 leaves ^ in. broad, often only 3 or 4 in. long, the flower 12-15 lines 

 long, exclusive of the ovary ; the crown the same colour as the divi- 

 sions, and slightly exceeding them, the divisions \ in. broad at the 

 base. — Ajax minor, Herb, and Kunth ; A. minor. Haw. (Red. Lil. t. 

 480). A. minimus, }^s.\f. (Bot. Mag. t. 6). J. pumihis, Ylaw. (Sweet, 

 Brit. PI. Gard. ser. 2, t. 143). N exiguus, Salisb. Prodr. p. 200- N. 

 pygmeeus and N. cuneiflorus, Salisb. Hort. Trans, vol. i. p. 343. 



4. Bicolor, L. Sp. Plant, p. 415. — Stature of the type and flower 

 the same size, but tiie corona a full bright yellow, forming a conspicu- 

 ous contrast with the very pale sulphur-yellow divisions of the limb. 

 With us at Kew this flowers later than the other varieties, and the di- 

 visions are more decidedly spreading. Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, p. 215 ; 



