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flowers, which are valuable for their agreeable odour, aod for flower- 

 ing later than most of the others. There is also one with very dou- 

 ble flowers, the outer petals white, those in the middle some white, 

 others orange-coloured/' which " has a very agreeable scent, flowers 

 early, and is generally called the Cyprus Narcissus," and is the most 

 beautiful of all the varieties when blown in glasses in rooms or other 

 places. 



The tenth lias a small bulb: the leaves few, narrow: the stalk 

 jointed, nine inches high: the corolla white, cut into six narrow seg- 

 ments: the cup yellow. It flowers late in the autumn, and is a na- 

 tive of Spain, Italy, and Barbary. 



The eleventh species has the flower deep yellow, three times as 

 large as that of the ninth, sometimes one only from a spathe, but 

 frequently more: the nectary not fringed, but divided at the mouth 

 into six blunt lobes. It possesses more fragrance than many of the 

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

 May. 



It varies with double flowers. 



The twelfth resembles the ninth very much, but the petals are a 

 little larger and sharper; the nectary is the same length with the 

 petal; the leaves two or three, a foot or more in length: the stem is 

 slender, strong, a foot in length: the flowers two or three from a 

 spathe, very elegant, large and loose: the petals yellow: the cup half 

 an inch long, sinuated at the edge, of a deeper yellow colour. It 

 flowers in April, and is a native of the southern parts of Europe and 

 of the Levant. 



The thirteenth is named from the narrowness of its leaves, like 

 those of Rushes; there are two or three of them usually on a plant, 

 and they are angular, fleshy, and almost round: the scape is round, 

 hollow, producing at top from three to five flowers from a spalhe, 

 sometimes no more than two, very fragrant petals orbicnlate or nui- 

 cronate, both they and the cup yellow: the bulb small, while, covered 

 with dark membranes. It is a native of Spain, flowering i;i April 

 and May. 



It varies with double flowers. 



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