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A. Crown bell-shaped; leaves broadly linear: N. 

 Pseudo-narcissus, L., Daffodil, Lent-Lily; crown as long 

 as the perianth-segments ; meadows, common. N. incom- 

 parabilis, Curt. ; flowers paler, crown bright yellow, half 

 as long as the perianth-segments ; Valais, Ticino. 



B. Crown shallow ; tube of perianth elongated ; leaves 

 nearly flat : N. poeticus, L. ; flowers large, usually 

 solitary, white, fragrant, crown yellow with a red 

 crenulated border; meadows, local; Southern Switzer- 

 land, Jura, Carinthia, Pyrenees. N. biflorus, Curt. ; 

 flowers large (ij in.), fragrant, usually in pairs, pale 

 yellow, crown dark yellow; Valais, Geneva, Lombardy, 

 Pyrenees. N. radiiflorus } Salisb. ; flower solitary, white, 

 sepals and petals lanceolate, not overlapping, ovary cylin- 

 drical, stem more slender, leaves narrower ; meadows ; 

 Switzerland, Jura, Styria, Savoy. 



C. Tube elongated ; crown saucer-shaped ; leaves 

 subulate or cylindrical : N. juncifolius, Req. (PL in); 

 flowers 1-3, yellow, fragrant, crown orange, tube very 

 long and slender, leaves subulate ; Pyrenees. 



Many other species of Narcissus, especially belonging 

 to the sections Jonquilla and Tazetta } grow in the plains 

 of Lombardy and in the Pyrenean valleys. 



2. GALANTHUS, L. 



Flowers solitary, white, pendulous, enclosed in a mem- 

 branous spathe; sepals spreading; petals small, erect, 

 with green streaks ; leaves 2, linear. 



G. nivaliS) L., Snowdrop ; meadows and orchards ; 

 Switzerland, Pyrenees ; not common. 



