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Narcissus continued. 



are perfect gems. All the above-named succeed in the 

 same sort of soil and under similar treatment to that 

 given to Hyacinth bulbs (see Hyacinthus . The Paper 

 White and Double Eoman varieties may be forwarded, 

 in heat, when their flower scapes can be seen ; all the 

 others are best if grown throughout in a cool frame. 



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FIG. 631. NARCISSUS BULBOCODIUM. 



N. abscissas (cut off). A form of N. Pseudo-Xarcissus. 



N. albicans (whitish). A form of N. Pseudo-Narcissus mos- 



chatus. 



N. altras (white). A form of N. Uflorus. 

 N. angustifolius (narrow-leaved). A synonym of N. poeticus 



radii/lorus. 



Narcissus continued. 



N. biflorus (two-flowered).* fl. from fifteen to eighteen lines 

 across when expanded ; tube about lin. long, exclusive of the 

 ovary ; divisions milk-white, spreading horizontally when ex- 

 panded, Jin. to lin. long, $in. to Jin. broad, obovate, much 

 imbricated, blunt or cuspidate ; crown one to one and a-half 

 lines deep, less spreading than its close ally, Jf. poeticus, yellow, 

 about iin. across, the edge conspicuously crispato-crenulate ; 

 scape with two salient edges, bearing typically two, rarely one or 

 three, flowers. May. I. about four to a scape, gin. to iin. 

 broad, slightly glaucous, flattish, bluntly keeled, often more 

 than 1ft. long. Bulb ovoid, more than lin. thick. Europe 

 (naturalised in Britain). Supposed to be a hybrid between 

 X. poeticus and N. Tazetta. See Fig. 630. (B. M. 197 ; N. 41.) 

 albus is a white-flowered form. 



N. bifrons (two-faced). A form of N. Tazetta, intermedia. 



N. Broussonetii (Brousspnet's). jl. greenish at the base, white 

 upwards, with the tube eight or nine lines long, exclusive of the 

 ovary, under one line thick ; divisions of the limb sub-campanu- 

 lately erecto -patent, pure white, oblong-lanceolate, about iin. 

 long by iin. broad, narrowed suddenly to a bluntish point ; crown 

 almost entirely confluent with the apex of the tube ; scape about 

 1ft. high, from four to eight-flowered. Spring. I. about four to 

 a scape, four to six lines broad, usually equalling the scape. Bulb 

 ovoid, as large as a hen's egg. Mogadore. (N. 47.) 



FIG. 632. NARCISSUS BULBOCODTUM CONSPICUUS. 



N. Bulbocodium (Bulbocodiurn).* Hoop Petticoat. Jl. bright 

 yellow ; perianth gradually widened from the ovary to the mouth 

 of the crown, eighteen to twenty -one lines deep, exclusive of the 

 ovary ; tube and crown very nearly equal in depth, the latter 

 scarcely at all crisped, and very indistinctly toothed at the 



FIG. 633. NARCISSUS BULBOCODIUM MONOPHYLLUS. 



N. Barlce (Barla's). A form of ff. Tazetta Luna. 



N. Bertolonii ( Bertoloni's). A form of N. Tazetta chrysanthus. 



N. bicrenatus (twice-crenate). A form of N. Tazetta intermedium 



throat ; divisions of the limb ascending, linear, from one to three 

 lines broad at the base, narrowed gradually from the base to an 

 acute point ; scape 4in. to Sin. high, slender, terete, one-flowered, 

 flower either ascending or horizontal. April and May. L two or 



