NARCISSUS 



NARCISSUS 



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2444. Narcissus incom- 

 parabUis. (X^s) 



somewhat ascending, on a very short jieflicel, the tube 

 usually greenish, ami suhoyhniirical, the segnis. and 

 crenate-pUeate (5-lol)ed corona pale yellow in the type 

 (but varjing to other color combinations), the stamens 



and style not ex- 

 sertcd. S. France and 

 Spain to the Tyrol; 

 by some considered a 

 hybrid race of A^. 

 Psciido - Narcissus x 

 A'^. poclicus. 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., 

 has white fls., with the 

 corona usually pale 

 yellowish. Var. au- 

 rantus, Hort., has the corona orange at the 

 top. 



cc. Foliage green. 



6. odonis, Linn. (A'^. calathlmis, Ker. 

 Phildgyne oddra, Hnw. N. Cam pernellii, Kovt.). Cam- 

 PERNELLE JoNQUiL. Lvs. half the width (}4in.) of those 

 of A', incomparabilis, the bulb nearly or quite as large, 

 the peduncle sub terete: 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, io \% 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 A'. Jonguilla x A^. 

 Pseudo-Narcissus. B.M. 934. — A good harfly species, 

 differing from A'^. incomparabilis chiefly in its narrow 

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

 Var. trflobus, Baker (A^. Irilobus, Liim., A^. Ikliis, 

 Salisb. N. odbrus var. Iklus, Hort. Phildgyne Iwminalis, 

 Haw.). Fls. smaller, the segms. about ji'm. long and 

 imbricated; crown lobed, much shorter than segms. 

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

 croiNTi very small. Var. rugulosus, Hort. (Phildgyne 

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

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

 of JV. odorus. 



7. juncifSlius, Lag. (A'^. Requienii, Roem. QucUia 

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



slender species, with bulb 

 about }-2'Q- diam., and 

 very narrow rush -like 

 terete lvs., about 6 in. 

 long: scape slender and 

 terete, 6-12 in. long: fls. 

 1^, horizontal or as- 

 cending, the tube .slen- 

 der - cylindrical ( Hin. 

 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. minutifldrus. Baker 

 244S. Narcissus rupicolus.— A form (N .minutifldrus, Wink.), 

 of N. junci/olius. ( x 5s) has about 4 very small 



fls., the perianth-tube J-ain. and the ovate .segms. 

 }4, in. long; corona truncate. Var. rupicolus, Baker 

 (A^. ruiricolus, Dufour), Fig. 2445, has pedicels none or 

 very short, perianth-tube ^i'm. long and limb Min. 

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



2446. Narcissus Barrii. ( X K) 



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

 long pedicels; segms. of perianth J^^in. 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 A'. 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: lvs. various. 



c. Los. i^in. 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 lvs. 13-2 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 whole 

 fl. about 132 in. 

 across; stamens 

 and style barely 

 exserted. Canary 

 Isls. to China and 

 Japan. — Perhaps 

 the commonest 

 species and very 

 variable. "Of the 

 multiformTazetta 

 narci.ssi about 100 

 have received 

 specific names." 

 — Baker. In his 

 monograph, he 

 describes 14 sub- 

 species, named in 

 italic below. "The numerous 

 forms of A^. Tazclta are so ex- 

 tremely variable that nothing 

 short of .50 foHo 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 .^mall-crowned fls. and 

 the broad lvs. The variations are 

 largely in color and in size of fls. 

 Baker makes three groups: 



2447. Polyanthus narcis- 

 sus.— N. Tazetta. ( X Ji) 



