NARCISSUS. 8 



Var. N. Graellsii Webb ; Bot. Mag. t. 6473 b. — Leaves generally 

 2, comparatively stout. Pedicel very short. Perianth about an 

 inch long, primrose-yellow, ^ in. long and broad. Style and often 

 stamens exserted from the corona. — Mountains of Castille. 



Var. N. NIVALIS Graells. — Leaves 2-3, slender, erect. Peduncle 

 2-4 in. long. Perianth ^-f in. long, orange-yellow. Style and 

 stamens exserted. — Mountains of Central Spain and Asturias. 



Var. C. HEDR^ANTHA Wcbb & Held. — Leaf solitary. Flower 

 sessile, small, yellow. Corona lobed. Genitalia exserted. — Moun- 

 tains of Jaen. 



Var. ciTRiNus Baker in Florist, 1880, 67. — Flowers 1^-2 in. 

 long, pale lemon-yellow. Corona 1 in. diam. at the throat, obscurely 

 crenulate. Stamens and style included. 



Var. C. MONOPHYLLA Durieu, Expl. Alger, t. 47 ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 5831; Burb. tabs. 2 & 23b. N. Clusii Dunal. — Leaf very 

 slender, usually solitary. Flowers nearly sessile, white, 1^-2 in. 

 long. Corona crenate. Style usually exserted. — Algeria, flowering 

 from December to February. C. albicans and cantahrica Haw. are 

 white-flowered forms, known only from old figures. 



Hab. South of France, Spain, Portugal, Algiers, and Morocco. We have 

 a 2-headed form, received in May, 1873, from Mr. J. E. Daniel, of Epsom. For 

 a full account of the forms and their distribution see a paper by Mr. Gr. Maw, 

 read before the Scientific Committee of the Horticultural Society in February, 

 1887, printed in the ' Gardeners' Chronicle ' and other journals. 



2. N. PsEUDo-NARcissus Liiiii. Sp. Plant. 414 ; Engl. Bot. 

 t. 17 ; Keich. Ic. Germ. t. 816 ; Burbidge, t. 3. N. festalis SaHsb. 

 — Bulb ovoid, l-li" in. diam. Leaves 4-6, linear, glaucous, erect, 

 flattish upwards, ^-^ in. broad, about as long as the peduncle. 

 Peduncle about a foot long, with two prominent edges, flowering in 

 March iii the type; pedicel 4— f in. long; spathe 1^-2 in. long. 

 Perianth ascending, l|-2 in. long ; tube obconic, -|— f in. long and 

 broad ; segments oblong, ascending, pale sulphur-yellow, l-lj in. 

 long, |-f in. broad. Corona lemon-yellow, as long as the segments, 

 1 in. diam. at the throat ; edge erect, plicate, irregularly inciso- 

 crenate. Stamens erect, inserted low down the tube, reaching 

 halfway up the corona. Style a little longer than the stamens. 

 A. serratus Haw. has segments shorter than the corona. A. nohilis 

 Haw. (Red. Lil. t. 158) has spreading segments, and a spreading 

 throat to the corona. A. lohidaris, canibricus, and obvallaris Haw. 

 (Bot. Mag. t. 1301, lower figure) are forms between this type and 

 major, with shorter rather imbricated segments, and a corona with 

 a spreading deeply 6-lobed throat. A. rugilohus Haw. has pale 

 segments longer than the deeply 6-lobed corona, the lobes of which 

 are very plicate. A. 'pallklus-yrcBcox Hort. is an early-flowering 

 form from the Pyrenees, with very pale flowers. A. variiformis 

 (Parkins) is a Pyrenean form between this type and moschatus. 

 Var. Joknstoni Baker is a Portuguese form with a tube f in. long, 

 ^ in. broad at the throat, a pale truncate corona, and style much 

 longer than the stamens. 



Subsp. A. MUTicus Gay. Oihus ahscissus Haw. — Stature of the 

 last. Leaves a little broader. Flower 1-1|- in. long ; tube obconic, 



