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,as in that it continues upright till within a short time of the flower's 

 expanding. It is a native of several parts of Europe, flowering in 

 May. 



There are two or three varieties, as with sulphur-coloured flow- 

 ers, and with white reflexed petals, with gold-coloured borders. 



The fourth species resembles the first; but the petals are white* 

 the nectary is dark yellow and larger, with a spreading, waved, 

 notched border. Gouan thinks it is easily distinguished by its leaves' 

 which are scarcely a palm in length and half an inch in breadth; by 

 its large flower, with cordate-ovate petals, imbricate at the base, and 

 sulphur-coloured, and by the nectary having a reflex mouth, twelve- 

 cleft or thereabouts, the lobes also being toothed and curled : the 

 scape is the length of the leaves, or a little shorter, and thick. 

 It is a native of the South of Europe, flowering in April and May. 



There is a large variety, which approaches in its general appear- 

 ance very near to the first sort; but it is a much taller plant, and has 

 its leaves more twisted, as well as more glaucous: the flower, but 

 especially the nectary, is much larger, and the petals are more spread- 

 ing. Jt is of a fine deep yellow colour, having sub-varieties with 

 double flowers, and is a native of Spain, flowering in April. It is 

 sometimes known by the title of Great Yellow Spanish-Bastard Daf- 

 fodil. 



The fifth is nearly related to the first sort, but is three times 

 smaller in all its parts: the scape is scarcely striated: the spathe is 

 greenish: the flowers more nodding: the petals distinct at the base, 

 lanceolate, straight, not oblique or ovate : the margin of the nectary 

 six-cleft, waved, curled. But though the flowers are not so large as 

 those of the other species, when the roots are planted in a cluster, 

 they make a very pretty show, and have this advantage, that they 

 flower somewhat earlier than any of the others. It is a native of 

 Spain. 



The sixth is of the same size with the second, but the leaves arc 

 narrower by half and channelled : the spalhe one-flowered : the Avhole 

 corolla snow-white: the petals ovate-oblong: the nectary bell-shaped, 

 shorter by half than the corolla, with the margin straight, and un- 



