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colour, and a little hollow in the middle like the keel of a boat: the 

 stalk rises a fool and half high, having two sharp longitudinal angles; 

 at the top comes out one nodding flower, inclosed in a thin spathe: 

 the corolla is of one petal, being connected at the base, but cut almost 

 to the bottom into six spreading parts; in the middle is a bell-shaped 

 nectary, called by gardeners the cup, which is equal in length to the 

 petal, and stands erect: the petal is of a pale brimstone or straw 

 colour, and the nectary is of a full yellow : the seeds are roundish, 

 black. It is a native of many parts of Europe, flowering in 

 March. 



There are varieties with white petals and a pale yellow cup, with 

 yellow petals and a golden cup, with a double flower: with three or 

 four cups within each other; Tradescant's large double; long-tubed 

 flowered; short-tubed; dwarf-stalked; and the peerless Daffodil. 



Many other varieties have likewise been noticed by writers. 



The second species has a smaller and rounder bulb than the first: 

 the leaves are longer, narrower, and flatter: the stalk or scape does 

 not rise higher than the leaves, which are of a gray colour: at the top 

 of the stalk comes out one flower from the spathe, nodding on one 

 side: the corolla snow white, spreading open flat, the petals rounded 

 at the points: the nectary or cup in the centre is very short, and 

 fringed on the border with a bright purple circle: the flowers have 

 an agreeable odour, appear in May, and seldom produce seeds. It 

 is a native of Italy, &c. flowering in April. 



There are varieties with double white flowers, with purple-cupped 

 flowers, and with yellow-cupped flowers. 



The third usually produces two flowers : it frequently occurs, 

 however, with one, more rarely with three; in a high state of culture 

 it probably may be found with more. When it has only one flower, 

 it may easily be mistaken for one of the varieties of the second sort, 

 but may be distinguished from it by the petals being of a yellowish 

 hue, or rather a pale cream colour; the nectary wholly yellow, not 

 having the orange or crimson rim, and by its flowering at least three 

 weeks earlier ; the top also of the flowering stem very soon after it 

 emerges from the ground bends down and becomes elbowed; where- 



