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DAFFODILL (COMMON.)— ("-^cww^tw Pseudo- 

 narcissus.) 



The White Baffodills are also called Primrose Pearls, and 

 the Yellow Daffodills, Lidelillies, and Daify-downdillies. 



Descrip. — There are several kinds of daflfodills : some 

 with a crimson or red purple circle in the middle of the 

 flower, and others having a yellow circle, resembling a 

 coronet or cup, in the middle of the flower : there is 

 another kind that is yellow in the middle, and another 

 •ort which bears double flowers. The common wild Daf- 

 fodill grows about a foot high. The leaves are long, nar- 

 row, grassy, and of a deep green ; and they are nearly as 

 long as the stalk, which is roundish, but somewhat flat- 

 tish and edged. The flower is large, yellow, and single : 

 it stands at the top of the stalk, and by its weight presses 

 St down a little : the root is round and white. 



Place, — It is common in the gardens in its own natural 

 form, and in a great variety of shapes and colours that 

 culture has given it. The yellow Daffodil] does not ffrow 

 naturally in this country, but in gardens where it in 

 planted. 



Time. — Daffodills flower in March and April. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — Venus govierns all the Daffo- 

 dilU, except the yellow, which belongs to Mars. The 

 fresh roots of the former are to be used, and it is very 

 easy to have them always in readiness in a garden ; and 

 very useful, for they have great virtues. Given interual- 

 ly, in a small quantity, either in decoction or powder, 

 they act as a vomit, and afterwards purge a little : and 

 are excellent against all obstructions. The best way of 

 giving them is in form of the juice, pressed out with some 

 white-wine ; but their principal uses are externally. The 

 frei»h roots bruised, and boiled with parched barley-meal» 

 very suddenly heal fresh wounds ; mixed with honey, 

 tliey strengthen sprains, and are ffood to apply to cuts, 

 aud to old aches m the joints. With darnel-meal and 

 honey, they break imfK)8thumea, and help to draw out 

 ■plinters from the flesh : the juice of the bruised root 

 will alla^ swellings and inflammations of the breast The 

 rooU of yellow Daffodills boiled, and taken in poesei- 

 drink, cause vomiting, and are used with good success at 



