NAT. ORDER. 



SpathacccB. 



NARCISSUS TRIANDRUS. THREE-ANTHERED RUSH DAFFODIL. 



Class VT. Hexandria. Order I. Monogytoa. 



Gen. Char. Style, straight, slender. Filaments adhering to the up- 

 per part of the tube. Limb, decidedly reflex. Cup, equalling 

 or shorter than the limb. Tube, drooping. Capsule, erect. 

 Seed, oblong. 



Spe. Char. Tube and Limb, equal, and much longer than the cup. 

 Limb, reflexed. Sjmthc, many-flowered. Flowers, drooping. 

 The three alternate Stametis much shorter than the others, and 

 with the Style concealed by the cup. 



The Jlower-stalk or scajje in aU these species has two or three 

 flowers, and the flowers are always drooping. It may also be ob- 

 served, that all the species called Jonquil, of which this once was 

 one, are distinguished by their slender, rush-like leaves, whence in- 

 deed they take their name, as it is derived from the Latin word 

 Juncifolius, literally rush-leaved. The leaves are somewhat chan- 

 nelled ; the sjjathe is one-flowered ; the whole corolla snow-white ; 

 the petals ovate-oblong ; the nectary bell-shaped, shorter by half than 

 the corolla, with the margin straight, and unequally crenulate ; the 

 stamens three, seldom six ; the anthers dark yellow, shorter than the 

 nectary. In nurseries the flowers are of a pale yellow, having two, 

 and sometimes three flowers from a spathe. It is a native of Por- 

 tugal. 



There are perhaps few plants that rary more in the flowers than 



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