Pratt LXX. 
(A) NARCISSUS papyracevs, Gawl.; (B) N. papyracegts, f. 
ineurvata. 
Natural Order AMARYLLIDACE®. 
Gen. Cuar.—See description of Plate XXII. Part I. 
(A.) Spec. Coar.—F lowers entirely white (except the tube, which 
is usually greenish), numerous, in a loose umbel. Scape compressed: 
sharply two-edged. Divisions of perianth ovate-oblong. Crown sub- 
entire, sides wavy, upright, about one-quarter of the length of the 
divisions. Zeaves dark glaucous-green, slightly channelled. Buwld large- 
Narcissus papyraceus, Gawl. Bot. Mag. xxiv. tab. 947; Parl. F]. Ital. 
iii. 125. WV. niveus, Lois, Narciss. p. 37; Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. iii. 
260; Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 361. 
(B.) Spero. Cuan. — Flowers entirely white, tube greenish, about 6 
ina loose umbel. Divisions of perianth short, the outer ones ovate, the 
inner ovate-oblong, all curved inwards. Crown very short, entire, sides 
upright. Leaves and scape of N. papyraceus, Gawl. 
Narcissus papyraceus, Gawl. 8. incurvata, Moggridge. 
Hapitrats.—(A) Mentone, December 12, 1866; (B) Turin valley, 
Mentone, February 26, 1868; both gathered by myself. 
Remarxs.—The species and the variety figured differ not only in 
the characters above cited, but also in their time of flowering; for 
Narcissus papyraceus, Gawl., may be gathered at Christmas-time about 
Mentone, while the var. incwrvata is not out before February. The 
different species and varieties of Narcissus are very complex, and, as 
most of them are found chiefly in cultivated ground, any new variety is 
readily propagated by division of the bulbs, which takes place when the 
earth is broken up. I have seen living specimens of Narcissus papy- 
raceus, Gawl., from Pegli, near Genoa (sent to me by Mrs. Tebbs), and 
from San Remo, where it is found in great profusion.. M. De Notaris 
states that it grows about Sestri di Ponente. 
Expnanation oF Pirate LXX.—Fig. A 1, a flower divided longi- 
tudinally in half. A 2, a transverse section of the leaf. A 3, a trans- 
verse section of the scape. Fig. B 1, a transverse section of the scape. 
B 2, a transverse section of a leaf. B 3, an inner, and B 4, an outer 
division of the perianth. All the Figures are of the natural size. 
