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N. odorus L. Leaves narrow, much channelled. Scape 1-3 flowered. 

 Flowers entirely yellow, large (4-6 cm.), often scented. Perianth saucer-shaped, 

 with obovate mucronate spreading segments. Crown large, 10-14 mm. high, 

 shortly lobed. Style much longer than the stamens. 



Fields and meadows, rare ; but often adventitious. March-April. Le 

 Luc, Sollies-Toucas, north of Mont Faron, Menton, Grasse, etc. 



N. major Curt. = N. hispanicus Gottan. Woods and meadows, often 

 cultivated and sometimes double. April-May. 



(2) Stamens with filaments united into a tube for nearly their whole length. 



* Scape 1-2 flowered. 



N. poeticus L. Poet's Narcissus. Perianth with small crown deeply 

 crenate, greenish-yellow with bright red rim. 



Meadows and damp woods of the lower mountains. April-May. 



N. biflorus Curt. Two-flowered Narcissus. Leaves almost flat. Flowers 

 usually two together, pale straw-colour or rarely nearly white, sweet-scented. 

 Perianth-tube slender, an inch long; segments oval or oblong; crown very 

 short, broadly cup-shaped, yellow, with slightly crenate edge. 



Damp places near Menton and Grasse, rare. April. 



** Scape 3-12 flowered. 



N. italicus Gawl. (Plate XXVIII). Leaves broadly linear, obtuse, chan- 

 nelled, not glaucous, about the length of the scape. Flowers 6 or more. Perianth 

 segments oblong-lanceolate, yellowish white (yellower than N. Tazetta), crown 

 pale yellow, with slightly crenate margin. Style longer than the upper stamens. 



Meadows, sides of fields, and hills near the coast. January-March, rare. Le 

 Luc, near Toulon and Hyeres, Nice, Grasse, Menton, S. Kemo. 



N. papyraceus Gawl. = N. niveus Loisel. Stem i-i ft. high. Leaves 

 broadly linear, obtuse, channelled and glaucous. Flowers 10 or more in an 

 umbel, sweet-scented. Perianth and crown pure white ; tube green at base, white 

 above ; segments 4 times length of crown. Style reaching the upper stamens. 



Borders of fields, hill-sides near the coast. December-March. Much culti- 

 vated and rarely seen now in a truly wild state. 



N. Tazetta L. Stem 1-2 ft. high. Leaves broadly linear, obtuse, flat or 

 somewhat channelled and slightly glaucous, sometimes longer than the stem. 

 Flowers 2-12 in a drooping umbel, sweet-scented. Perianth segments nearly 

 white, i.e. cream coloured, mucronate. shorter than the long and narrow tube. 

 Crown yellow, a third to a half length of the perianth segments, entire or slightly 

 crenate. 



Damp meadows and borders of streams. Common on the littoral, and some- 

 times in abundance as in the marshes below Hyeres. February-April. 



N. patulus Loisel. Though given as a distinct species in the " Catalogue des 

 Plantes Vasculaires du Var " this may be considered, as Ardoino suggests, as a 

 form of N. Tazetta with narrower leaves and smaller flowers, which grows in 

 dry, stony places under the olives, etc. February-April. Les lies d'Hyeres, 

 presqu'ile de Giens, and in les Alpes-Marit. 



N. dubius Gouan. This must be very similar to the last, though the flowers 

 are entirely white. Stem 6-12 in. high. Leaves glaucous, linear (3-5 ram.). 

 Flowers small (up to 2 cm. in diameter), 2-6 in an umbel. Perianth segments much 

 shorter than the long narrow tube. Crown white, 3-5 mm. high, crenate at the 

 edge. 



Stony places and in fissures of rocks in the hills of the littoral. March-April. 

 Faron (near the top) v Ollioules, La Valette, and La Farlede towards Coudon. 



N. auretlS Lois. Leaves 4-6, green, flat, broad and erect. Flowers golden- 

 yellow, 3 cm. in diameter, often scented, 8-12 in an erect umbel. Perianth seg- 

 ments oval-obtuse, mucronate. Crown bright yellow, 4-6 mm. high and almost 

 entire, equal to a third of the segments. 



Borders of fields, etc., rare. January-March. Le Luc, Menton, Nice, Grasse 



