NARBONNE 



NAREFF 



Narbonne, France. Church of the Benedictine Abbey 

 oi Lamourguier, dating from the 13th century 



Narbonne. City of France. In 



the dept. of Aude, it is 93 m. E. of 



Toulouse, and is connected with the 

 Mediterranean by 

 a canal about 5 

 miles long. InRo 

 man daya it was 

 known as Narbo. 

 and was the met- 

 ropolis of South- 

 ern Gaul. In the 

 12th cent, a com- 

 Narbonne arms mercial rival to 



Marseilles, it produces a well-known 



red wine and a famous honey, and 



has also salt, sulphur, and porce- 

 lain works. The Gothic church of 



S. Just, with a lofty choir, was 



formerly a cathedral. Pop. 29,000. 

 Narcissus. In Greek mythology, 



a beautiful youth, beloved of the 



nymph Echo, whose passion he 



could not return. Echo died of 



grief, and as a punishment the 



gods caused Narcissus to fall in love 



with his own reflection in a spring. 



This fruitless love made him pine 



away, until he was changed into 



the flower that bears his name. 

 Narcissus. Small genus of 



bulbous herbs of the natural order 



Amaryllidaceae. They are natives 



of Europe, N. Africa, N. and W. 



Asia. One species only, the daffodil 



(N. pseudonarcissus), is indigenous 



in Britain, though 

 the jonquil (N. 

 biflorus) and the 

 pheasant's-eye (N. 

 poeticus), escaped 

 from gardens, have 

 become naturalised 

 here and there. The 

 rush-like or strap- 

 shaped leaves all 

 spring directly from 

 the bulb, and the 

 flowers are borne on 

 tall scapes, either 

 singly, as in the 

 daffodil, or forming 

 an umbel, as in the 

 polyanthus narcis- 

 sus (N. tazetta). As 

 all the species have 

 been widely culti- 

 vated, there are a large number 

 of garden variations and many 

 hybrids in existence. 



For bedding purposes vast 

 numbers of the bulbs in a resting 



to soil, but will succeed best in a 

 deep loam, especially if a layer of 

 sand is placed beneath each bulb at 

 the time of planting. See Amaryl- 

 lidaceae ; Corona 



Narcotics. Drugs which in large 

 doses depress the functions of re- 

 spiration and circulation, producing 

 unconsciousness. The narcotics 

 most often used in medicine are 

 chloroform, ether, nitrous oxide, 

 opium, and chloral hydrate. 



Narcotine. Alkaloid of opium. 

 First prepared by Derosne of 

 Paris, in 1803, it occurs in opium 

 in an amount varying from one to 

 ten p.c., and is obtained as a by- 

 product in the manufacture of 

 morphine. Narcotine, which is not 

 a pronounced narcotic, has been 

 employed in intermittent fever. 



Nardo. City of Italy, in the 

 prov. of Lecce, Apulia. Situated 

 llm. by rly. W. of Zollino, a junc- 

 tion on the Gallipoli line, it has a 

 cathedral and many churches, also 



Narcissus. Narcissus neglecting Echo to gaze upon his own reflection in the 

 water. From the painting by J. W. Waterbouse, R.A., in the Walker Art 

 Gallery, Liverpool 



Reproduced by permission of the Corporation of Liverpool 



state are imported from the bulb- 

 farms of Holland ; and great 

 quantities of cut flowers are sent 

 from the Scilly Isles. The bulbs 

 should be planted as early as pos- 

 sible in the autumn, to allow of 

 the f ull development of roots before 

 winter. They are not particular as 



Narcissus. Left, flowers 



of pheasant's-eye, N. poeticus; 

 narcissus, N. tazetta 



right, polyantnus 



textile manufactures. In the neigh- 

 bourhood are olive plantations 

 and vineyards. Pop. 12,000. 



Nardoo (Marsilea drummondii). 

 Aquatic flowerless herb of the 

 natural order Marsileaceae. It is a 

 native of Australia. One of the 

 water-fern group, it has a creeping 

 rootstock, and its fronds take the 

 form of a long, erect stalk, with 

 four leaflets at the summit, ar- 

 ranged crosswise, and sensitive to 

 light. The spore capsules are of 

 two kinds : one containing a single 

 macrospore, the other numerous 

 microspores. They are contained 

 at first in hard shells known as 

 sporocarps, which the aborigines 

 pound into a kind of flour. 



Nareff OR NAEEV. River of 

 Poland. One of the big streams 

 that traverse the flat tract of N. 

 Poland, it rises a few miles N.E. of 

 Pruzhani, and after a W. and S.W. 

 course of over 200 m., joins the Bug 

 at Serock, 18 m. N. of Warsaw. 



