NARCISSUS 



NARCISSUS 



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somewhat ascending, on a very short pedicel, the tube 

 usually greenish, and subcylindrical, the segms. and 

 crenate-plicate 6-lobed corona pale yellow in the type 

 (but varying to other color combinations), the stamens 



and style not ex- 

 serted. S. France and 

 Spain to the Tyrol; 

 by some considered a 

 hybrid race of N. 

 Pseudo - Narcissus x 

 N. poeticus. B.M. 

 121. G. 4:127. One 

 of the commonest 

 species in cult., the 

 fls. often 3-4 in. 

 across, and in many 

 varieties. Double 

 forms are frequent. 

 Var. albus, Hort., 

 2444. Narcissus incom- has white fls., with the 



parabilis. (x%) corona usually pale 



yellowish. Var. au- 



rantus, Hort., has the corona orange at the 

 top. 



cc. Foliage green. 



6. odorus, Linn. (N. calathlnus, Ker. 

 Phildgyne odora, Haw. N. Campernellii, Hort.). CAM- 

 PERNELLE JONQUIL. Lvs. half the width (Kin-) of those 

 of N. incomparabilis, the bulb nearly or quite as large, 

 the peduncle subterete: fls. about 2 (sometimes 4), fra- 

 grant, the tube more slender than in N. incompa- 

 rabilis, and the obconic shortly 6-lobed crenate corona 

 somewhat smaller, the fl. bright yellow throughout; 

 segms. obovate-oblong, cuneate below, spreading and 

 not imbricated, to 1J^ in. long; style exceeding the 

 anthers and reaching about half way of the crown. 

 France and Spain and eastward; although found wild, 

 by some regarded as a hybrid of N. Jonquilla x N. 

 Pseudo-Narcissus. B.M. 934. A good hardy species, 

 differing from N. incomparabilis chiefly in its narrow 

 Ivs., 2 or more blossoms to a peduncle, fls. fragrant. 

 Var. trflobus, Baker (N. trilobus, Linn., N. Ixtus, 

 Salisb. N. odorus var. Ustus, Hort. Philogyne hemindlis, 

 Haw.). Fls. smaller, the segms. about %in. long and 

 imbricated; crown lobed, much shorter than segms. 

 B.M. 78. Var. minor, Burb., fls. 1 in. diam. and the 

 crown very small. Var. ruguldsus, Hort. (Philogyne 

 ruguldsa, Burb.), has shorter oblong imbricated peri- 

 anth-segms. Queen Anne's Jonquils are double forms 

 of N. odorus. 



7. juncifolius, Lag. (N. Requienii, Roem. Queltia 

 juncifdlia, Herb. Phildgyne minor, Haw.). Very small 



slender species, with bulb 

 about J^in. diam., and 

 very narrow rush -like 

 terete Ivs., about 6 in. 

 long: scape slender and 

 terete, 6-^12 in. long: fls. 

 1-4, horizontal or as- 

 cending, the tube slen- 

 der - cylindrical ( ]^va. 

 long), the ovate spread- 

 ing imbricated segms. 

 and the cup - shaped, 

 crenulate corona bright 

 yellow or the corona 

 sometimes darker; style 

 reaching the throat of 

 the tube; segms. about 

 twice as long as corona. 

 S. France and south. 

 A choice fancier's plant. 

 Var. minutiflorus, Baker 



fls., the perianth-tube H m - and the ovate segms. 

 ^ in. long; corona truncate. Var. rupicolus, Baker 

 (N. rupicolus, Dufour), Fig. 2445, has pedicels none or 

 very short, perianth-tube %in. long and limb %in. 

 across; corona 6-lobed. B.M. 6473 C. Var. gaditanus, 



whole 



2445. Narcissus rupicolus. A form 

 of N. juncifolius. ( X %) 



(N. minutiflorus, Willk.), 

 has about 4 very small 



2446. Narcissus Barrii. ( X %) 



Baker (N. gaditanus, Boiss.). Fls. 4 or 5, with rather 

 long pedicels; segms. of perianth K m - or less long, 

 broadly ovate; corona truncate, nearly equaling segms. 

 In this medium-crowned section belong many 

 hybrid races derived from the long-crowns (or trumpets) 

 and the short-crowns. Perhaps the best-known of these 

 races in gardens are those called N. Barrii (Fig. 2446) 

 and N. Leedsii (see pp. 2106 and 2113). 



AAA. PARVICORONATI or SMALL-CROWNED species: 

 corona usually much less than half the length of 

 the segms., mostly saucer-shaped. 

 B. Corona soft and uniform in texture: Ivs. various. 



C. Lvs. Y#,n. or more broad, flat, mostly somewhat glaucous. 



8. Tazetta, Linn. POLYANTHUS NARCISSUS. Fig. 

 2447. Strong variable species, the bulb often 2 in. 

 diam., the 4-6 Ivs. \}/% ft. or less long, about the length 

 of the flattened peduncle: fls. several (4-8 or 12), 

 horizontal or declined on slender pedicels, the tube less 

 than 1 in. long and greenish, the spreading obovate 

 imbricate segms. pure white, and entire cup-shaped 

 corona lemon-yel- 

 low, the 

 fl. about 

 across; stamens 

 and style barely 

 exserted. Canary 

 Isls. to China and 

 Japan. Perhaps 

 the commonest 

 species and very 

 variable. "Of the 

 multiformTazetta 

 narcissi about 100 

 have received 

 specific names." 

 Baker. In his 

 monograph, he 

 describes 14 sub- 

 species, named in 

 italic below. "The numerous 

 forms of N. Tazetta are so ex- 

 tremely variable that nothing 

 short of 50 folio plates would do 

 the plant justice." Burbidge. 

 All this wealth of varieties is 

 readily grouped under one specific 

 type, which is recognizable by 

 the many small-crowned fls. and 

 the broad Ivs. The variations are 

 largely in color and in size of fls. 2447. Polyanthus narcis- 

 Baker makes three groups: sus. N. Tazetta. CXH) 



