128 PETALOIDEJ3. 



thread-like, furrowed, longer than the flower-stalks. Flowers 

 solitary, pale violet-colour, yellow a*- the lower part within. Daw- 

 lish Warren. (Ixia JJulbocodium, E. B. t. 2549.) P. in. iv. 



ORD. XCI. AMARYLLIDACE^l. 



NARCISSUS. NARCISSUS, DAFFODIL. 



1. N. Pseudo-Narcissus (common Daffodil.) In damp 

 woods and thickets. Boot bulbous. Leaves linear, blunt at the 

 end. Flower- stalk single-flowered ; flowers large, yellow ; petals 

 6 ; nectary bell- shaped, crisped at the margin, as long as the 

 petals ; stamens 6, within the nectary. West Hill, near Tor- 

 quay. Shiphay. Kingskerswell. Barton. (E. B. t. 17.) P. 



III. IV. 



2. N. biflorus (pale Narcissus.) In sandy fields. Root bul- 

 bous. Leaves linear, obtuse, keeled. Flower-stalk usually bearing 

 2 flowers within the spatha ; flowers of 6 pale sulphur- coloured 

 spreading petals ; nectary short, bright yellow, with a white cre- 

 nated margin. Shiphay. Barton. Fields at Paignton, near the 

 Dartmouth road. Fields by the Dart, above Totness Bridge. 

 (E. B. t. 276.) P. iv. v. 



GAIiATOTHUS. SNOWDROP. 



G. nivalis (common Snowob'op.) In old orchards, meadows, 

 and thickets. Root bulbous ; leaves 2, broadly linear. Flowers 

 solitary, white, drooping, inner segments greenish. Orchards at 

 Marychurch. Field at Barton Ridge. Near the brook at Chud- 

 (E. B. t. 19.) P. n. m. 



OED. XCII. DIOSCOREACE^l. 

 TAMUS. BLACK-BRYONY. 



T. communis (common Black- Bryony.) In hedges and 

 thickets. Root large, thick and fleshy, acrid, somewhat like a 

 Yam in appearance, and abounding in starch. Stems very long 

 and climbing ; leaves heart-shaped, acute, undivided. Flowers 



