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AMARYLLfDE.E 



Stamens 6, alternately shorter, with versatile anthers. (Named 

 after Narcissus, a youth said in Greek mythology to have been 

 changed into a flower.) 



I. N. Pseudo-narcissus (Common Daffodil, Lent Lily). — A 

 beautiful and favourite flower, with glaucous, blunt, nearly flat 

 leaves ; a hollow, glaucous peduncle less thaii a foot high, bearing 



GALANTHUS NIVAlIS {SnOwdfOp). 



LEucojUiM ^srivuM {Summer SncrMflake). 



one flower, the long, bell-shaped, deep golden coronet of which is 

 nearly as long as the pale yellow perianth-leaves, and is notched 

 and curled at its margin. — Woods and pastures; frequent. — Fl, 

 March, April. Perennial. 



* Several other species of Narcissus, such as N. biflorus, with a 

 2-flowered scape, and A^'. poeticus, the Pheasant's-eye Daffodil, with 

 a spreading, white perianth, and small, yellow, cup-shaped, red- 



