102 Orb. 3. Narcissem. Cl. 6. Spathacew. Liriogame. 
Prasiteles. e Tubus tibimformis: Lacinie tubo breviores, 
incurvulo-horizontales, anguste cuneate, basi distincts: Corona 
2—1 lineam langa, e Squamis 6, retusis, crassis constans. Filamenta 
supra medium tu riesgo inserta, brevi vissima. Herba in Morocco, 
isthmo inter Gibraltar et St. Rocque, locis humidis, pedalis vel ultra. 
Flores prasini ; i Po Moscharie fragrantissimi, Pedunculus 
ante folia sero autumno, teretiusculus, equatus, l-5-florus. Folia 
glauco-viridia, teretiuscula, fistulosa. mpaoivos prasinus, tedeos per- 
fectus. eciés 1. Narcissus Viridiflorus Scuouss. Beob. p. 142. t. 2. 
unculus ante folia autumno, subanceps, siriatus, -T-florus ; moa 
Florescentiá admodum tarde pergente ut monet ScmovssoE. Folia 
any Botanists of the present day may be of opinion that these 
Plants do not constitute a legitimate Order, and whether mine or 
eirs be he 
lowers of Nature. "Therefore after quoting an Adage, which is par- 
tieularly applicable to this case, * male «dum cum Domino quem 
Villicus docet,” I have only to say, that if every Class Order Genus 
usstev. I 
are permitted partly to know has combined the living Herbs into 
roupes ; as varied in shades of affinity, as the tints of their Flowers ; 
and a truly philosophital student, after attempting peradventure not 
ey Leno success to measure some of their intervals, finds a 
ting place in any of them, when fatigued with the 
multiplicity of lovely objects before him. Narcissee amount at 
prese 
below. Their Filaments are metum higher or lower in the Tube, 
but invariably below its orifice, never cohering with the Crown, in 
some Genera so short that the frein are almost sessile, in others 
