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2. NARCISSUS JONQUILLA. 



JONQUIL. 



THIS genus contains plants of the bulbous-rooted perennial 

 flowering kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Hexandria Monogynia, and ranks 

 in the natural order of Spathacece. 



The characters are: that the calyx is an oblong spathe, obtuse, 

 compressed, opening on the flat side, shrivelling: the corolla has six 

 ovate, acuminate petals, flat, equal, inserted into the tube of the 

 nectary externally above the base: nectary one-leafed, cylindric- 

 funnel-form, coloured on the border: the stamina have six awl- 

 shaped filaments, fixed to the tube of the nectary, shorter than the 

 nectary: anthers oblongish: the pistillum is a roundish germ, ob- 

 tusely three-sided, inferior: style filiform, longer than the stamens: 

 stigma bifid, concave, obtuse : the pericarpium is a roundish cap- 

 sule, obtusely three-cornered, three-celled, three-valved : the seeds 

 are many, globular, and appendicled. 



The species cultivated are: 1. N. pseudo-narcissus, Common Daf- 

 fodil; 2. N.poeticus, Poetic, or White Narcissus; 3. N. biflorus,T\vo- 

 flowered Narcissus, or Pale Daffodil; 4. N. bicolor, Two-coloured 

 Narcissus ; 5. N. minor, Least Daffodil : 6. N. triandrus, Rush- 

 leaved Narcissus, or Reflexed Daffodil; 7- N. orientalis, Oriental 

 Narcissus : 8. N. Bulbodocium, Hoop-Petticoat Narcissus : 9- N. ta- 

 zetta, Polyanthus Narcissus ; 10. N. serotinus, Late-flowering Nar- 

 cissus; II. N. odor us, Sweet-scented Narcissus, or Great Jonquil; 

 12. N. calathinus, Calathine Yellow Narcissus; 13. N.jonquilla, Com- 

 mon Jonquil. 



The first has a large bulbous root, from which come out five or 

 six flat leaves, about a foot long, and an inch broad, of a grayish 



