NATURAL ORDER AMARYLLIDACE. 
Tribe.-—NanrcissE&. Section of genus Narcissus, having yellow 
flowers and flattened leaves. 
Pirate XXITI.—WNarcissus tazetta. Linn. De Candolle. 
Grenier and Godron. Woods. 
Gerneric.—See preceding description. 
Speciric.—Flowers about eight in number, always having pale, yellow- 
tinted divisions and a bright yellow crown. The shape and relative 
length of the parts of each flower vary much on the same scape. Scape 
much shorter than in other Mentonese Narcissi, being generally less 
than one foot in height. Leaves of very variable width, but nearly of 
the same height as the scape. 
EXPLANATION OF PuatE X XIII.—Plate XXIII. represents Narcissus 
tazetta. 
Remarks.—This is the commonest of all the representatives of the 
genus Narcissus about Mentone, and is one of the very few species 
about which no doubt exists as to its title to be called a native. The 
profusion in which this lovely plant grows in the olive and vineyards 
in the neighbourhood can only be compared with the abundance 
of our own daffodils, growing in the well-remembered English nooks. 
The daffodil is not found at Mentone, though we possess Narcissus 
incomparabilis, which must be considered as closely connected with it. 
Narcissus tazetta varies much in the shape of the flowers and leaves, 
and these features are considered by some as worthy to rank as specific 
characters, otherwise no plant known to me at Mentone can be mis- 
taken for this. The specimen drawn was gathered at the Palazzo 
Orenga, in a great open flat partly under cultivation, on February 29th. 
The flowering begins in February and ends in March, varying according 
to the season. 
