HEXANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Narcissus. 131 



Cal. none. Pet. 6, ovate, pointed, flat, equal, spreading, at- 

 tached to the outside of the tube of the nectary, at some 

 distance above its base. Nectary of one leaf, funnel- 

 shaped, regular ; cylindrical below ; dilated into a cup- 

 shaped, coloured border, above the insertion of the pe- 

 tals ; containing honey in the bottom of the tube. Filam. 

 awl-shaped, inserted into the tube of the nectary, in 2 

 rows, and shorter than its border. Anth. linear, incum- 

 bent, bursting along their outer edges. Germen inferior, 

 roundish, with 3 blunt angles. Style slender, triangular, 

 rising above the stamens. Stigma in 3 concave, obtuse 

 segments. Caps, roundish, with 3 blunt angles, mem- 

 branous, of 3 cells and 3 valves, wth central partitions. 

 Seeds several, globose. 



Root a coated bulb. Leaves several, radical, in 2 opposite 

 ranks, linear, a little succulent, smooth ; either flattish, 

 or semicylindrical and tubular. Stalk central, bearing one 

 or many Jlowers, from a terminal, membranous, simple, 

 permanent, sheathing bractea. Fl. yellowish, or whitish, 

 or partaking of both colours. 



1. "N. poelicus. Poetic Narcissus. 



Flowers mostly solitary. Cup of the nectary very short, 

 depressed; membranous and crenate at the margin. 

 Leaves bluntly keeled ; their edges reflexed. 



N. poeticus. Linn. Sp. PL 414. Willd. v. 2. 34. Fl.Br.353. Engl. 



Bot. V. 4. t. 275. Bull. Fr. t. 306. Redout. Liliac. t. 160. 

 N. n. 1250. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 122. 



N. albus^circulo purpureo. Bauli. Pin. 48. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 56/. ?. 

 N. medio purpureas. Dod. Pempt. 223. f. Ger.Em.\23.f. Dalech. 



Hist. 1517./. Pass. Hort. Florid, t. 19. 

 N. primus. Corner. Epit. 951./. 

 N. medio rubro communis. Sweert. Floril. t.22.f. 3, 



In heathy elevated open fields, on a sandy soil. 



At Wood-bastwick, and in other parts of Norfolk. Mr. Rose. On 

 a rabbit-warren at Shorne, between Gravesend and Rochester. 

 Mr. Jacob Rayer. 



Perennial. May. 



Bulb ovate, with a dark -brown skin. Leaves 12 to 18 inches long, 

 nearly erect, half an inch broad, of a rather glaucous deep green ; 

 rounded and obtuse underneath ; their edges acute, recurved j 

 the disk slightly concave, striated with numerous longitudinal 

 veins. Stem about as tall as the leaves, straight, hollow, 2- 

 edged ; rounded at the sides. Bractea brown and dry, cloven, 

 rather longer than the partial stalk. Flower large and very beau- 

 tiful, powerfully fragrant. Petals pure white. Nect. with a 



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