106 REVIEW OF TIJE GENUS NARCISSUS. 



Sclmll. Syst. vii. p. 962. Q. Assoana, Kunth, Enum. v. p. 730. N. 

 apodanthus, Boiss. and Reut. Diagn. p. 25. 



Var. gaditanus. — Flower smaller, the divisions being scarcely longer 

 than the crown, which is the same size as in the type. — N. gaditanus, 

 Boiss. and Reut. Diagn. iv. p. 96 ; Willk. Bot. Zeit. 1860, p. 104; 

 Bourg. Pi. Exsic. Hisp. n. 2042. 



A native of Spain and the South of France. This is one of the 

 smallest plants in the genus, and is too small to be generally popular. 

 It is in cultivation at Kcav, and we have seen it lately in two private 

 collections. It is very like the Jonquil on a smaller scale, and may be 

 readily distinguished by the crown being half as long as the divisions. 



X. N. DUBius (Gouan, Illust. 22). — Bulb ovoid, 9-12 lines in thick- 

 ness ; leaves 4-6 to a scape, concave on the face, glaucescent, 5-6 in. 

 long, 1|— 3 lines broad ; scape 6-9 in. long, slender, decidedly com- 

 pressed, and 2-edged. Flowers 2-6, the pedicels of the upper ones 

 considerably exceeding the spathe. Tube cylindrical, pure white, 5-6 

 lines long, about a line in thickness. Expanded flower, 6-9 lines 

 across, the divisions pure white, ovate-oblong, 3 lines long, 2-2|- lines 

 broad, imbricated, patent or slightly reflexed, subobtuse or cuspidate. 

 Crown pure white, obconical, i in. deep, slightly crisped and crenulate 

 at the throat, which is not more than 3 lines across. Stamens bise- 

 riate, subsessile, the upper three reaching into the corona. Style about 

 as long as the tube. Reich. Fl. Germ. t. 812 ; Greu. Fl. France, iii. 

 p. 260 ; Moggridge, Cont. Fl. Mentone, t. 71. — N. pallidus, Poir, Ency. 

 iv. p. 424. Hermione dubia, Haworth, Herbert, and Kunlh. 



A native of tliB South of France, about Toulon, Marseilles, Avignon, 

 and Nice. We have not seen it in English gardens, but there are ex- 

 cellent figures in the works of Reichenbach and Moggridge, which we 

 have quoted. On the one hand it resembles y?w?ci/bZi?<5, but the leaves 

 and stem are quite different, and the flowers are a uniform pure white, 

 instead of a bright yellow. On the other hand, it comes exceedingly 

 near some of the multiform varieties of Tazetta. 



Group III. Paevicoeonat^ : crown less than half as long as the divisions 

 of the perianth. 



Of this group we may define 11 leading types, as follows : — 

 Limb of the flower horizontal, or nearly so, when ex- 

 panded; anthers sessile, or very nearly so. 

 Flowering in spring : — 



