158 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Var. a, genuinus. 
Prate MDI. 
Leaves slightly glaucous. Perianth segments oblong-lanceolate, 
pale yellow. Crown bright yellow, crenate-serrate and usually cut 
into six shallow nearly rectangular segments at the apex. 
Var. 2, Bromfieldi. 
N. Pseudo-narcissus var. y, concolor. Bromf. Fl. Vect. p. 407. 
Ajax lobularis, Haworth in Phil. Mag. Aug. 1830, p. 131 (ex loc. nat., non ex 
descript.). 
Leaves very glaucous. Perianth segments ovate or oblong-ovate, 
bright yellow, nearly as dark as the crown. Crown crenate and cut 
into six rounded lobes at the apex. Flowers expanding earlier than 
those of var. «, and the scape generally shorter. 
In woods, meadows, pastures, and on banks. Not uncommon in the 
south of England, where it appears to be truly native; but how far 
north it is impossible to ascertain. In Scotland it is only an intro- 
duced plant. In Ireland it may be native in some of its stations, but is 
considered by the authors of the “ Cybele Hibernica,” as not a true 
native. Var. ® very doubtfully native. ‘The late Rev. W. T. Bree 
sent me living specimens from his garden, the roots of which originally 
were gathered by a friend of his at Tenby, Pembrokeshire. Dr. Brom- 
field mentions its occurrence on a steep bushy bank behind Apse Farm 
(Isle of Wight), overlooking the garden, in which it also grows plenti- 
fully, “though appearing rather to have encroached on the grass plots 
from the station above than to have escaped there from the former” 
(Fl. Vect. p. 498). Mr. Frederick Stratton has visited this station, 
and reports that the garden appears formerly to have extended up the 
bank, and he does not believe the Narcissus is indigenous there. 
England, [Scotland, Ireland]. Perennial. Spring. 
Rootstock flowering when about the size of a nutmeg, with a thin 
smooth pale-brown covering, the coats continued upwards into a few 
scarious sheaths enclosing the leaves and scape. Leaves 2 or 3, 3 to 
3 inch broad, appearing towards the end of winter. Scape 6 inches to 1 
foot high, when in flower 2-edged, erect, and furrowed, slightly inclined. 
Spathe at first subherbaceous, but scarious before the flowers expand. 
Buds at first erect, afterwards drooping, the flower inclined or nearl 
horizontal. Perianth tube about 3 inch long, yellow tinged wit 
reen; perianth segments about 1 inch long, subacute, primrose-yellow. 
rown golden yellow, 1 to 1} inch long, usually with the mouth 
