BEVIEW OF THE GENUS NARCISSUS. 101 



Flowers produced in its native localities in the south of Europe in 

 April, horizontal or cernuoiis, measuring 9-10 lines from the top of 

 the ovary to the top of the crown, the tube cylindrical, under ^ line 

 thick in the lower half, pure white, like the reflexed divisions of the 

 limb, which, just equal it in length, and are lanceolate, acute, 1^-3 

 lines broad at the base ; crown pure white, obconical, 2|— 3 lines deep, 

 erecto-patent and entire at the throat. Stamens distinctly biseriate, 

 the three lower ones inserted low down in the tube, the three upper 

 ones near the top of the tube, the filaments straight, 3-4 lines long, 

 sometimes, as is the style, slightly exserted from the corona. — Gany- 

 medes triandrus and G. albus, Haw. N. coronatus and N. Goornei, 

 De Cand. in Redoute, Lil. vol. viii. Ganymedes Linnm, Kunth, Enura. 

 5, p. 719. Illus triandrus. Haw. Mon. p. 4. N. paUidulus, Graells 

 in Bourg. Exsic. Hisp., n. 2282. 



A native of Spaiu, not, so far as we know, in cultivation in this 

 country. From the other plants of this group it is distinguishable at 

 a glance by its very slender habit and the reflexed divisions of the 

 perianth, in both of which it exactly corresponds with iV. calathinus, 

 of the group treated in our last paper, from which the difference in 

 the size of the corona separates it. The name triandrus originated in 

 a misconception, Linnaeus having overlooked the three stamens of the 

 lower row, which sometimes remain hidden down in the tube, whilst 

 the outer three, which rise from the top of the tube, are conspicuous. 

 The following are the principal varieties : — 



1. pulcJiellus, 3-4-flowered, the corona white, the divisions bright 

 yellow. — N. pulchellus, Salisb. Prodr. p. 223. Ganymedes pulcheUus, 

 Haw. and Kunth, Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard. ser. 2, t. 99. -A^. triandrus, 

 var. Zm^cms, Bot. Mag. t. 1262. 



2. cernuus, 1-2-flowered, the flower pale yellow, the crown a rather 

 deeper yellow, and both divisions and crown rather larger than in the 

 type. — N. triandrus, Bot. Mag. t. 48. N. cernuus, Salisb. Prodr. p. 

 223. Ganymedes cernuus, Salisb. Haw. Herb. Kuuth. 



3. concolor, 2-4-flowered, the divisions and crown a concolorous 

 pale yellow, the same size as in the type. — Ganymedes concolor. Haw. 

 Herb. Kunth; Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard. scr. 2, t. 113. 



4. nutans, 2-3-flowered, the crown a deeper yellow than the divi- 

 sions, crenulatc. — N. Irilobus, Bot. Mag. t. 945. Ganyint'des nutans, 

 Haw. Herb. Kunth. 



