ISO HEXANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Narcissus. 



at the summit ; 3 of them external. Filam. from the sum- 

 mit of the germen, flattened, short, equal, erect. Anih. 

 terminal, about the same length, linear, obtuse, quadran- 

 gular, simple, slightly spreading, opening by 2 terminal 

 pores. Gcr/w. inferior, ovate, abrupt. S'(y/e' round, bluntish. 

 Stigma acute, with a bristly point. Caps, turbinate, ob- 

 tuse, of 3 cells, and 3 valves, with central partitions. 

 Seeds several, globose. 

 Root a coated bulb. Leaves several, radical, linear, entire. 

 Fl. one or more, on a radical stalk, drooping. Bractea 

 solitary, sheathing. 



1. L. (Estivum. Summer Snowflake. 



Flowers several. Style club-shaped. 



L. sestivum. Linn. Sp. PZ. 414. Willd. V.2.Z0. Fl. Br. 353. Engl. 

 Bot. V. 9. ^ 621. Curt. Lond.fasc. 5. t. 23. Jacq. Austr. t. 203. 



L. bulbosum majus sive multiflorum. Bauh. Pin. 55. Rudb. Elys. 

 c. 2. 95./.3. 



L. bulbosum majus polyanthemum. Ger. Em. 148./. Bauh. Hist. 

 v.2.592.f. 



L. bulbosum polyanthemum. Dod. Pempt. 230. f. Renealm. Spec. 

 99. t. 100./. 1. 



Leuconarcissolirion. Lob. Ic. \22. /. 



In moist meadows, and marshes near rivers. 



Close by the Thames between Greenwich and Woolwich, undoubt- 

 edly wild 5 also in the Isle of Dogs. Curtis. In a small island 

 in the river, about 3 miles south of Kendal, Westmoreland. Mr. 

 Gough. In pastures at Little Stonham^ Suffolk. Mrs. Cobbold, 

 Near Reading. Mr. Murray. 



Perennial. May. 



Bulb roundish. Leaves numerous, !§ or 2 feet long, erect, bright 

 green, linear, obtuse, somewhat concave, and bluntly keeled ; all 

 inclosed, with thejlotver-stalk, in one or more very short, mem- 

 branous, abrupt, entire, radical stipulas. Stalk upright, about 

 as tall as the leaves, two-edged, hollow, bearing 4 or more pen- 

 dulous, stalked, white, inodorous^oieers, with a green, external, 



- as well as internal, spot on each petal near the extremity. The 

 uniformity of the petals distinguishes the present genus from 

 Galantkus. Bractea solitaiy, oblong, concave, erect, as long as 

 the flowers. Seeds black. 

 Common in rustic gardens, where the bulbs multiply without any 

 care. 



186. NARCISSUS. Narcissus, or Daffodil, 

 iinn. Gen. 161. Juss.55. Fl,Br,353. Tourn.t. 185. Lam.t.229. 

 Nat. Ord. see n. 184. 



