132 HEXANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Narcissus. 



very shallow yellow cup, the border white internally ; of a beau- 

 tiful crimson next ; and at the extreme edge brownish, filmy, 

 and minutely crenate. Sometimes, though very rarely, there are 

 2 flowers. A noble double variety is frequent in gardens, as 

 well as the more elegant single kind, the real Narcissus of the 

 Greek writers, clearly described by Dioscorides. 



2. N. bifiorus. Pale Narcissus. Primrose peerless. 



Flowers in pairs. Cup of the nectary very short, depressed ; 

 membranous and crenate at the margin. Leaves acutely 

 keeled ; their edges inflexed. 



N. biflorus. Curt. Mag. t. 1 97. fVilld. Sp. PL v. 2. 39. Fl. Br. 354. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 4. t. 276. With. 332. 



N. poeticus. Huds. \4l. tVade Dubl.96. 



N. n. 1250 /3. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 122. 



N. pallidus circulo luteo. Bauh. Pin. 50. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 57./. 9. 



N. medio luteus. Dod. Pempt. 223./. Ger. Em. \24.f. Dalech. 

 Hist. 1518. f. 1. 



N. medio luteus vulgaris. Kaii Syn. 371. 



N.albidus,medioluteus,cumaliquotfloribus. BaM/(.fl^is^i;.2.604./. 



In sandy fields. 



Near Hornsey church. Sherard. On a rabbit-warren at Shorne, 

 Kent. Mr. J. Rayer. About Berkhamstead, Herts. Mr. G. An- 

 derson. Common in meadows about Dublin. Mr. De Luc. 



Perennial. April, May. 



Clearly distinguished from the foregoing, with which Mr. Hudson, 

 like Haller, always confounded it, by the acute keel, and straight 

 sides, of the leaves, whose edges moreover are inflexed, not re- 

 curved. Thejlowers are smaller, usually 2, rarely solitary, some- 

 times 3. Petals of a pale sulphur-colour. Border of the nec- 

 tary white, crenate. 



The scent is less agreeable tlian the former. Both are almost 

 equally common in gardens, but the bifiorusxs seldom seen double. 



3. N. Pseudo-?iarcissus. Common Daffodil. 

 Flowers solitary. Cup of the nectary bell-shaped, erect, 



crisped, with six marginal segments; its length equal to 

 that of the ovate petals, 



N. Pseudo-narcissus. Linn. Sp. PL 4\4. fVilld. v. 2. 35. FL Br. 



355. Engl. Bot. v. 1. t. 17. Hook. Scot 100. Bull.Fr. <. 389. 

 N. n. 1252, HalL Hist. v. 2. 123. 

 N. sylvestris pallidus, calyce luteo, Bauh. Pin. 52. Raii Syn. 37 1 . 



Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 70. f. 8. 

 Narcissus. Brunf. Herb v. 1, 129./ 1. 

 N. luteus. Trag. Hist. 757. f. 



N. luteus sylvestris. Dod. Pempt. 227 .f. 1, 2. Dalech. Hist 1523./: 

 N. tertius. Camer.Epit.^53.J\ 



