NARCISSUS 



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NARCOTIC 



French forces, but was captured at Sedan on 

 September 2 and subjected to imprisonment in 

 Germany. His wife and son fled to England, 

 and there, after peace had been declared in 

 1871, Napoleon was allowed to join them. His 

 death occurred at Chislehurst, in Kent. A.MC c. 



Consult Simpson's Rise of Louis Napoleon; 

 Barthez's Empress Eugenie and Her Circle. 



Related Subject*. The reader is referred to 

 the following: articles in these volumes: 

 Bonaparte, subhead 



Louis Bonaparte 

 Crimea, subhead 



Crimean War 

 Eugenie-Marie de 



Montijo 



NARCISSUS, narsis'us, a character in Greek 

 mythology, son of Cephissus, the river god, and 

 Leiriope, a nymph. Narcissus was a handsome 



France, subtitle History 

 Franco-German War 

 Louis Philippe 

 Napoleon I 

 Sedan, Battle of 



In some delicious ramble, he had found 

 A little space, with trees and rocks around ; 

 And in the midst of all, a clear, deep pool. 



KEATS. 



lad, very vain of his own beauty, and indifferent 

 to beauty in others. Echo, a nymph, and a 

 favorite of the gods, was so wounded by his 

 rejection of her love that she faded away until 

 only her beautiful voice remained. The gods, 

 angered by Narcissus' coldness and Echo's 



death, caused him to fall hopelessly in love 

 with his own image, mirrored in. a spring. Fas- 

 cinated by his own face, he bent unceasingly 

 over the spring until he, too, died and was 

 changed by the gods into the flower that bears 

 his name. 



NARCISSUS, a large group of popular early 

 spring flowers which send up their lovely blos- 

 soms from brown-coated bulbs. This group in- 

 cludes the dainty yellow jonquil, the gay, 

 golden daffodils and the lovely white narcissus. 

 Nearly all are natives of Europe, but for 

 their hardiness, sweet fragrance and delicately 

 fashioned blossoms of yellow or white have 

 been widely cultivated indoors and out. The 

 jonquil and daffodil are described under their 

 titles in these volumes. 



Of the narcissi, the poet's narcissus, or pheas- 

 ant's eye, is a hardy favorite. It produces a 

 single fragrant, wide-open blossom on each 

 stalk. White petals surround a very short, yel- 

 lowish tube which has a crinkled red edge. It 

 is said this is 

 the species im- 

 mortalized by 

 classical writers 

 of long ago. The 

 paper white nar- 

 cissus and the 

 polyanthus nar- 

 cissus, or Chinese 

 sacred lily, with 

 their deliciously 

 fragrant blossoms 

 of pure white, ap- 

 pearing in clus- 

 ters of from four 

 to twelve amid 

 narrow, flat green 

 leaves, are gen- 

 eral favorites for 

 winter cultivation in hothouses, 

 planted outdoors 



PAPER NARCISSUS 

 Flower and bulb. 



If bulbs are 



in autumn, three to four 

 inches deep, in loose, good soil, masses of fra- 

 grant blossoms will appear in May. 



The name is from the Greek word meaning 

 numbness, or torpor, and was suggested by the 

 reputed sleep-giving qualities of the perfume 

 of the blossoms. 



NARCOTIC, nahrkot'ik. There are certain 

 substances that have a marked effect upon the 

 nervous system, producing insensibility to pain, 

 stupor, sleep or coma, according to the dose. 

 Such substances are called narcotics, a term 

 derived from a Greek word meaning to make 

 numb. Opium, the effects of which are de- 



