160 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



We offon hear the Daffodil called " Daffadowndilly " and " Daffodilly ;" and the 

 origin of the name is probably never regarded. It is possibly coul'used with the 

 safii'on lUy, by older wiiters called " sapharoun lily." 



Section IL— QUELTIA. Pari. 



Spathe 1- or few-flo-wered ; flower rather longly pedicellate. Peri- 

 anth tube above the ovary, cylindrical, slightly enlarged upwards ; 

 perianth segments broad. Crown widely funnelshaped or cylindrical- 

 funnelshaped, about half the length of the perianth segments. 

 Stamens and style straight, the former adnate to the perianth tube 

 half-way up. 



SPECIES II.-NARCISSUS I N COM P ARAB I LI S. Miller. 



Plate MDII. 



Eeicli. Ic. El. Germ, et Helv. Vol. IX. Tab. CCCLXX. Pig. 819. 

 Queltia incomparabilis, Hawm-th ; Pari. El. Ital. Vol. III. p. 111. 

 Q. fcetida, Herb. Kunth, Enum. PI. Vol. V. p. 723. 



Leaves linear-lorate, scarcely tapering towards the apex, nearly flat, 

 slightly glaucous. Scape a little longer than the leaves when in 

 flower. Flower sohtary, inclined or horizontal. Pedicel longer than 

 the ovary. Perianth segments widely spreading, oblong-oval, sub- 

 acute, about as long as the free portion of the perianth tube, which is 

 cylindrical and slightly enlarged towards the apex. Crown about half 

 the length of the perianth segments, widely tubular-funnelshaped, 

 slightly plaited especially towards the apex, the margin with 6 shallow 

 rounded entire or faintly crenate lobes. 



In meadows. Naturalised at Ivilvington, near Thirsk, Yorkshire, 

 and in a field near Guisbro' Spa. Mr. Dillwyn states that it grows in 

 a little park at Margam, near Swansea, and Mrs. D. Llewelyn has 

 shown him good reason to believe that it has been growing there for 

 at least two centuries. I have seen specimens in the British Museum 

 from Hornsey, Middlesex, in Buddie's Herbarium. 



[England.] Perennial. Late Sj^ring. 



Bulb and leaves very similar to those of N. Pseudo-narcissus. Scape 

 10 to 18 mches high, very slightly compressed. Spathe similar to 

 that of N. Pseudo-narcissus, but the flower has a considerably longer 

 pedicel, and the bud is but slightly inclined before expanding. Perianth 

 segments 1| inch long, pale yellow. Crown about f inch long, bright 

 yellow, shading into orange towards the apex. The mature capsule 

 and seeds 1 have never seen. 



