, N. poeticiis. 



There are about 6 

 - ~i |.;iN ^'ra(lually pass into petals. 

 liill, -ncn and leathery, the inner 

 iih-.x J.. aNcending from the base. 

 Desi-ribed above. Lfts. entire. 

 B.M. IIOM. On. 2.), p. 329; 58, p. 13. 



jn old favr 



. Calif., 

 liough 8 

 11(1 now. 

 N slight, 

 al effect 

 a .show. 

 I- taken 



Many faster grmvers ami Inihr LI i 



its place. It does m.t |,r,i>lur,. MiHi.i.iii Inlinije; the 

 stem is always bare, h-iw ihl- :iii Mnli-iiiP-t \v li,.rl of Ivs. 

 at the extreme top. Tin- IN. m-.- iii.-,nis|ii,iin,is. It is of 

 easy culture, and does best in a position shaded from 

 the sun during the hotter part of the day. It stools 

 very freely, and for this reason is somewhat used in 

 shrubberies, where its otherwise naked stems would 

 render it valueless. Ernest Bracnton. 



RAPOLEdNA (after Napoleon Bonaparte). MyrtA- 

 cetv. JVapoleona imperialis is a truly imperial plant, 

 and worthy of being named after the distinguished 

 military leader. It is a tropical African tree, with 

 flowers that at once suggest a royal crown. They look 

 something like a gorgeous passion flower, with equally 

 rich fhniiL'h different colorini.'. and the same simpli- 

 city iiii'l vviniii.-tj-v ..f .1,-i-ii .•Npri-ssed in the same 

 rich iiiiili ipiirii \- /.f (lii.nl. 'I'li.y are shaped like a 

 saurcr. al I '.^'iiM'lHs in cliamn.r. and the dominant 



Colo 



Till 



of 



i>th, all 



of the 



rich. 



NARCISSUS (old name, thought by some to be de- 



ivcd from the story of the youth Narcissus, and by 



the species have come into prominence as sul 

 winter forcing. Baker, in his Handbook of the 

 lide£e, 1888, reduces the species to le, but ga 



within the other, tlie inner - 



the saucer is broken up into al" i 

 regular and formal, each one w ii h 

 the back to the center of the saur, 

 nutely serrati ai^iniil \t- iMaijii 

 saucer is a cir' ' :■ • i • . .a .i' i ■ 

 length ami li: i - 



larger crown. 11.1 ; : i...:^ '■■ 



dark red backer.. uml. v.huli iniualL^ in ouiuiie me 

 toothed rim of the saucer, and colors perhaps three- 

 fourths of the .bottom of the saucer. In the Flora of 

 Tropical Africa the fls. are said to be red, white or blue. 

 Elsewhere it is stated that the fls. turn bluish as they 

 decay. This interesting tree seems never to have been 

 offered in America, but is probably procurable from 

 Europe. B.M. 4387. G.C. 1844:780. R.H. 1853, p. 301. 



Ivs. line 

 Narcissi 

 fectly hi 



species : 



There ai 

 known i 

 species : 

 Ivs.neai 



N. .S'f !■"/ 



. . aj.iMaring with the flowers. 



ini: inill.s, most of them per- 



1 ti -I ah V and caii.Hble of being 



I la. a - Some of the 



IL-. The genus 



; I ' I and Jonquils. 



I a ^,".a, ,, la,, Un-y are little 



.^.- auiuiiiij l.l.M.iiiers are of 3 



aliousb., lis. green throughout. 



Ily not appearing with the fls. ; 



white with yellow < 



ingaftertlie fls. ; y. , hgans, 

 Spach, greenish white with 

 yellow corona, the Ivs ap 

 pearing with the fls. Many 

 of the garden Narc 

 hybrids. Some students sup 

 pose that some of the rec 



1456 Narcissus incomparabills 



shoi ter than usual a shows the i or 



o^ ai-j . b. tlie sp ithe Natural si/t 



