AMARYLLIDACE®. 161 
M. Gay thinks it is not improbable that N. incomparabilis may be 
a hybrid between N. Pseudo-narcissus and N. poeticus. Hybrids are 
very freely formed in the genus Narcissus, a number of them are 
cultivated in gardens, and a few have been found in a wild state. 
Short-crowned Daffodil. 
French, Narcisse nonpareil. 
This species is the well-known cottage-garden flower called by rustics “ Butter 
and eggs,” a name given it on account of the delicate primrose yellow or white of 
the sepals and petals, and the deep yolk-of-egg colour of the cup. It varies, like the 
others, with double flowers, and when in that condition is generally a greater 
favourite. 
Section II].—EU-NARCISSUS. Coss. & Germ. (Narcissus, Parl.) 
Scape many- or several-flowered (rarely 1- or 2-flowered), usually 
rather longly pedicellate. Perianth tube above the ovary cylindrical, 
sometimes slightly enlarged upward; perianth segments usually broad. 
Crown saucershaped or subrotate or cupshaped or urceolate-tubular, 
shorter than the perianth segments, usually very much shorter. 
Stamens of unequal length, three long and three short, their filaments 
adnate to the perianth tube up nearly to the apex, which alone is free 
and incurved. 
SPECIES TII—NARCISSUS BIFLORUS. Cut. 
Prate MDIII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. TX. Tab, CCCLXV. (?). 
Billot, F\. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 3231. 
Leaves linear-lorate, scarcely tapering towards the apex, widely 
channelled, very slightly glaucous. Scape about as long as the leaves 
when in flower. Flowers 2 together (more rarely 1 or 3). Pedicel 
much longer than the ovary when in flower. Perianth segments 
widely spreading, broadly obovate-oval, obtuse, apiculate, about as long 
as or a little shorter than the free portion of the perianth tube, 
yellowish-white. Crown very short, saucershaped, with a crisped and 
erenulated margin, wholly pale yellow, with the margin at length 
becoming scarious and white. 
Tn meadows and orchards. Naturalised in many places in England. 
I have specimens from the Isle of Wight, Devon, Sussex, and York. 
Rare and local in Ireland, and there found in some localities where it 
has the appearance of being wild. 
[England, Ireland.] Perennial. Late Spring, early Summer. 
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