110 UEVIEW OF THE GENUS NARCISSUS. 



6-10 flowers ; expanded flower 1^-2 in. across ; the divisions 8-10 lines 

 long, about equalling the tube, narrowed gradually to a point, slightly 

 imbricated, pale lemon-coloured ; crown sulphur-yellow, 2-2^ lines 

 deep, distinctly 6-lobed. — N. italiciis, Bot. Mag. t. 1188. H. italica, 

 Haw. Mon. p. 12 ; Herbert and Kunth, ex parte. N. prcecox, Tenore, 

 ri. Neap. i. t. 27. N. subalbidus, Lois. Fl. Gall. i. p. 236. 



Var. 8. N. chrysantJms. — 6-10-flowered, the flower smaller than in 

 the last (about an inch across), the divisions of the limb more imbri- 

 cated, but still narrowed to a point, a distinct lemon-yellow ; the crown 

 subentire, golden-yellow, about 2 lines deep. — N. chrysanthus, De Cand. 

 Fl. Fr. V. p. 323 ; Gren. and Godr. Fl. Franc, iii. p. 259. N. italicus. 

 Herb, and Kunth, ex parte. H. chrysantha, Haw. Mon. p. 12. H. 

 Bertolonii, Jord. Ic. t. 192. H. chlorotica, Jord. t. 191 (very pale 

 flower, only 8-9 lines across). 



Var. 9. N. aureus. — Expanded flower 12-15 lines across, the divi- 

 sions bright yellow, i-| in. long, 4-5 lines broad, bluntish, and much 

 imbricated ; the crown subentire, about a third the length of the divi- 

 sions, a deep orange-yellow ; the tube exceeding the limb. — N. Tazetta, 

 Bot. Mag. t. 925; Red. Lil. t. 17; Reich. Ic. t. 813. N. aureus, 

 Lois. Herb. Am. t. 147 ; Moggridge, Ment. t. 22. Hermione aitrea, 

 Jord. t. 194. a. Tazetta, Herb, and Kunth, ex parte. H. cupidaris, 

 Salisb. Hort. Trans, i. p. 361. H, Solaris and //. latifolia, Haw. Mon. 

 p. 9. 



A crowd of Haworth's species (as H. sublutea, H. perhttea, H. fln- 

 veola, H. deflexicaidis, and H. trifida) appear from the descriptions to 

 range between our varieties 8 and 9. iV". Tazetta, then, in the broad 

 sense of the term, as here defined, includes all the Narcissi with broad 

 glaucescent leaves, and a cup-shaped crown, from a quarter to half as 

 long as the divisions of the perianth. 



XII. N. GRACILIS (Sabine, Bot. Reg. 1. 116). — Bulb ovoid, an inch 

 or more in thickness ; leaves 4-6 to a scape, bright green, very convex 

 on the back, not more than 2^-S lines .broad^ equalling the scape. 

 Scape slightly compressed and 2 -edged, a foot high, producing 1 or 2, 

 or rarely 3 flowers, about the last week in April near London. Lower 

 pedicels 1^-2 in. long, about equalling the spathe. Tube 12-14 lines 

 long, exclusive of the ovary, about a line in thickness. Expanded 

 flower 1|— 2 in. broad, pale sulphur-yellow, the divisions obovate cus- 

 pidate, spreading horizontally f-| in. broad. Crown 2-21 lines deep, 



