104 REVIEW OF THE' GENUS NARCISSUS. 



pareil " and " Butter-and-Eggs " of English gardens. In one 

 specimen from Messrs. Barr and Sugden, the flower quite 3 in. across. 



Var. 2, albus. — The crown still orange, but the divisions a very pale 

 sulphur-yellow or milk-white. — N. albus, Spach. Queltia alba, Haw. 

 N. albidus, Schult. Q. foetida, var. grisea, Herb, and Kunth. The 

 flore-pleno form is the " Orange Phoenix " of the gardens. 



Extending as a wild plant from Spain and the south-west of France 

 to the Tyrol, and nearly or quite as common as the Daffodil in culti- 

 vation. It quite corresponds with the Daffodil in the leaves and 

 general habit, but even through the double-flowered forms may always 

 be known by the crown being not more than half as long as the divi- 

 sions of the limb. Herbert produced a plant, which is figured at tab. 

 38 of vol. xxix. of the ' Botanical Register,' which is exceedingly like 

 the var. albus, by fertilizing one of the varieties^ of the Dafi"odil with 

 the pollen of N. poeticus. We cannot distinguish N. Bernardi of 

 Henon, judging of it from Henon's figure, and from copious dried 

 specimens, by any definite character from N. incom'parabiUs ; but 

 Prof. Grenier, in his excellent and full account of the Erench Narcissi 

 in the ' Flore de France,' keeps up A^. incomparabilis as a species, but 

 regards Bernardi as a hybrid between the Dafl'odil and poeticus. If 

 this view be correct, Ave have a true and a hybrid incomparabilis, 

 barely distinguishable from one another, like the true and hybrid 

 Oxlip. 



VIII. N. ODORUS (L. Sp. Plant, p. 416).— Bulb ovoid, 12-15 lines 

 thick ; leaves 3-4 to a scape, nearly a foot long, 2|— 3 lines broad, 

 very concave on the face and convex on the back, bright green or very 

 slightly glaucescent; scape 12-15 in. high, scarcely at all compressed 

 or two-edged, producing early in April 1-4, generally '2 flowers, which 

 are sweet-scented and horizontal or ascending, the pedicel of the upper 

 one nearly or quite equalling the spatlie, which is more than an inch 

 long. Perianth bright yellow, 15-21 lines deep, exclusive of the ovaiy, 

 the tube 6-9 lines long, more slender than in incomparabilis, ^ in, thick 

 in the lower part, but wider at the throat, the divisions 9-12 lines 

 long, oblong-lanceolate, acute, very slightly paler than the corona, a 

 fresh bright yellow, 5-8 lines broad in the middle, usually imbricated 

 for the lower half or third. Crown 5-6 lines deep, not so much plaited 

 as in incomparabilis, the throat suberect, more or less distinctly 6-lobed, 

 -^-|- in. across ; stamens subuniseriate in the tube, the filaments and 



