THE DAFFODIL. 83 



DAFFODIL, PRIMROSE-PEERLESS. 



Narcissus. 



Welsh, Clychau maban, Cenhinen pedr, Croes aw gwanwyn. 

 French, Asphodele, Pauvre fille de Sainte Claire, Narcisse 

 sauvage, Campane jaune, (aian, aioult?} German, Grime 

 Dame. Italian, Arfodillo, Fiore di Santa Caterina, Trom- 

 bone giallo, Tazzetta Arabic, Nargis. 



LINNJEA.N. NATURAL. 



Hexandna. Amaryllidece. 



Monogynia. 



THERE is often a grace in the local names of plants. 

 The foxglove, in Cornwall, is the "fairy's cap ;" the 

 snowdrop in the southern counties is the " fair maid 

 of February;" and the Welsh peasant calls the 

 daffodil, Clychau maban, babies' bells, or Croes aw 

 gwanwyn, welcome spring; while the German fami- 

 liarly impersonates it as the grune Dame, as in the 

 Servian ballad ; 



" Wuchsen Blumen im Melongarten, 

 Blauer Hiacynth und grime Dame," 



Which recals the old English nursery rhyme ; 



" Daffy down dill, is come to town 

 With a yellow petticoat and a green gown." 



The French give it the name of Pauvre fille de 

 Sainte Claire; and the Italians call it the Fiore 



