4 8 4 



Amaryllidea Leiicoiwn. 



2. L. (iestivum (fig. 236). Summer Snowflake. This species 

 flowers in July. This and the foregoing both resemble the 



Snowdrop, but they are taller 

 in stature ; and this has seve- 

 ral-flowered scapes. Both are 

 natives of Europe. 



7. NARCISSUS. 

 Bulbous plants with all the 

 leaves radical, linear and nar- 

 row. Scapes one or more 

 flowered; flowers spathose, 

 white or some shade of yellow. 

 Perianth tubular below, with 

 an appendage at the mouth 

 called a crown or corona ; 

 segments spreading or reflexed. 

 Stamens usually equalling the 

 crown, filaments free or adnate 

 to the perianth. Capsule cori- 

 aceous. The name of this 

 genus is of mythological origin. 

 The species and varieties are 

 very numerous and somewhat 

 difficult of discrimination. 

 Mr. Baker's review of the 

 genus in the ' Gardeners' 

 Chronicle' for 1869 being the 

 most useful guide to the spe- 

 cies and varieties we are ac- 

 quainted with, we reproduce 

 that in an abridged form. He 

 arranges them under three 

 divisions, according to the size 



o f ^ e Cl'OWn VIZ : _ 



long or rather longer than the 



Fig. 230. Leucoium aestivum. ( nat. she.) 



I. MAGNICORQNATJ]. Crown as 

 divisions of the perianth. 



There are only three well-marked species belonging to this group, 

 one of which is very rare in a wild state and hardly known in 

 cultivation. They are distinguished as follows : 

 Tube inversely conical, varying from as long to twice as 

 long as broad, with the stamens from the bottom : 

 divisions of the perianth more or less ascending. 



