AMARYLLIPACK^.. K'tl 



]\r. Gay thinks it is not improbable tliat N. incomparabilis may be 

 a hybrid between N. Pseudo-narcissus and N. poeticus. Hybrids are 

 very freely formed in the genus Narcissus, a number of them are 

 cultivated in gardens, and a few have been found in a wild state. 



Short-crowned Daffodil. 



French, Narcisse nmipareil. 



This species is the well-known cottage-garden flower called by rustics " Butter 

 and eggs," a name given it on account of the delicate primrose yellow or white of 

 the sepals and petals, and the deep yolk-of-egg colour of the cup. It varies, like the 

 others, with double flowers, and when in that condition is generally a greater 

 favourite. 



Section III— EU-NARCISSUS. Coss. & Germ. (Narcissus, Pari) 



Scape many- or several-flowered (rarely 1- or 2-flowered), usually 

 rather longly pedicellate. Perianth tube above the ovary cylindrical, 

 sometimes slightly enlarged upward; perianth segments usually broad. 

 Crown saucershaped or subrotate or cupshaped or urceolate.-tubular, 

 shorter than the perianth segments, usually very much shorter. 

 Stamens of unequal length, three long and three short, their filaments 

 adnate to the perianth tube up nearly to the apex, which alone is free 

 and incurved. 



SPECIES III.-N ARCISSUS BIFLORUS. CnH. 



Plate JIDni. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. IX. Tab. CCCLXV. (?). 

 Billot, Fl. GaU. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 3231. 



Leaves linear-] orate, scarcely tapering towards the apex, widely 

 channelled, very slightly glaucous. Scape about as long as the leaves 

 when in flower. Flowers 2 together (more rarely 1 or 3). Pedicel 

 much longer than the ovary when in flower. Perianth segments 

 widely spreadmg, broadly obovate-oval, obtuse, apiculate, about as long 

 as or a little shorter than the free portion of the perianth tube, 

 yellowish-white. Crown very short, saucershaped, with a crisped and 

 crenulated margin, wholly pale yellow, with the margin at length 

 becoming scarious and white. 



In meadows and orchards. Naturalised in many places in England. 

 I have specimens from the Isle of Wight, Devon, Sussex, and York. 

 Rare and local in Ireland, and there found in some localities where it 

 has the appearance of being wild. 



[England, Ireland.] Perennial. Late Spring, early Summer. 

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