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manner only, account those to be Pseudo Narcissus, 

 Bastard Daffodils, whose middle cup is altogether as 

 long, and sometimes a little longer than, the outer 

 leaves that do encompass it, so that it seemeth rather 

 like a trunk, or a long nose, than a cup or chalice, 

 such as almost all the Narcissi, or true Daffodils, 

 have. Of the Bastard tribe Parkinson gives the 

 great yellow Spanish Daffodil; the Mountain Bas- 

 tard of divers kinds; the early straw-colored; the 

 great white Spanish; the greatest Spanish white; the 

 two lesser white Spanish; our common English wild 

 Bastard Daffodil ; the six-cornered ; the great double 

 yellow, or John Tradescant's great Rose Daffodil; 

 Mr. Wilmer's great double Daffodil; the great 

 double yellow Spanish, or Parkinson's Daffodil ; the 

 great double French Bastard; the double English 

 Bastard, or Gerard's double Daffodil; the great 

 white Bastard Rush Daffodil, or Junquilia; the 

 greater yellow Junquilia; and many others." 



Then he adds: 



"The Pseudo narcissus Angliens vulgaris is so 

 common in all England, both in copses, woods and 

 orchards, that I might well forbear the description 

 thereof. It hath three, or four, grayish leaves, long 

 and somewhat narrow, among which riseth up the 

 stalk about a span high, or little higher, bearing at 



