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% Narcissus.'] xci. amaryllidace^. 441 



With the preceding, and equally the outcast of gardens. %. 3. 

 This Mr. Borrer considers not specifically distinct from C. mtssia* 

 ''%\ cus Gawl, (C. vernus Curtis in Bot Mag.) 



roiv I ** Flowers in autumn^ before the leaves. Scapes enveloped in a tubular 



sheath. 



4. *C. sativus L. {Saffron C.) ; spatha double, stigma in 

 three deep linear divisions protruded drooping, cormus clothed 

 with slender anastomosing fibres. C. autumnalis E. B. t. 343. 



■ Meadows ; as about Saffron Walden in Essex, where it is cultivated 

 for the sake of its fragrant stigmas, which constitute saffron. %. 

 9^ We fear this plant, far from being a native, is not even natural- 

 ized in this country. 



5. *C. nudlflorus Sm. (naked-flowering C.) ; stigma within 

 the flower erect in 3 deeply laciniated segments, cormus with a 

 membranous coat — a. stigma equal in height with the anthers. 

 E B. t. 491. — /3. stigma considerably longer than the anthers. 

 C. speciosus Hook. (M. Bieh. P, not Reich) : E. B. S. t. 2752. 



a. Between Nottingham Castle and the Trent in a large meadow 

 called the Slddals, on the banks of the Derwent, near the Derby 

 . Railway Station. — j8. Meadows near Warwick, Warrington, and 



™,\ about Hahfax. %. 9, 10. 



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^'"^^ Ord. xci. AMARYLLIDACE^ R. Broion. 



Limb of the perianth coloured, 6-partite or 6-cleft. Stamens 

 6, inserted at the bottom of the segments, sometimes united by 

 a membrane. Anthers opening inwards. Ovary inferior, 

 3-celled; the cells many-seeded, or in those whose fruit is 

 fleshy, 1—2-seeded. Style I. /S^ma 3-lobed. i^rmY capsular : 

 either dry with 3 valves bearing the dissepiments in the middle, 

 3 cells and many seeds ; or fleshy with 1—3 seeds. Jntegument 

 '\i of the seed not crustaceous. Embryo straight, in the axis of a 

 \ fleshy albumen^ having the same direction as the seed. — Flowers 



large, generally of a bright colour. Leaves fleshy, indistinctly 

 nerved, all radical. Koots bulbous. 



1. Narcissus. Perianth tubular at the base, with a G-partite limb, and 

 # a campanulate crown or nectar3\ 



'^er, 2. Galanthus. Perianth G-partite, campanulate, 3 outer sepals spread- 



ing, 3 inner smaller, erect, emarginate j crown none. 

 3. Leucojum, Perianth G-partite, campanulate, sepals all equal and a 



little thickened at the point ; crown none. 



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1. Narcissus Linn. Narcissus. Dafibdil. 



\f Perianth coloured, tubular at the base, with a spireading 



ii\ I .6-partite limb^ and a campanulate or cup-sbaped crown or nee- 



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