4 NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 
imbricate perianth-segments, and a cupped corona with seemingly 
a fimbriate margin. 
5. N. medio rpese Ai (p. 75, f. 4). Said to have 
narrower and —- r leaves, and a less scented flower with a 
yellow, purple-edged Seon. The figure shows narrow and 
aire perianth -segments. 
nson adds that the first of these flowers in May, th 
od Ha in March, and the remaining three in April, so aes a 
month later (Old Style), The bulbs of 2, 4, and 5 are supposed 
ave been brought from Constantinople, and 3 — Germany, 
France, i Italy. Gerard is not quoted by Parkinso 
These Narcissi are reduced to four species by Ra ay (Hist. ii. 
p. 1133 *(1688) ), who does not appear, however, to have been well 
2g sored ge them. His first species is N. medio peeerets ot 
J. Bau d Gerard, and for this he cites Parkinson’s N. me 
omaouneiy Goch and auhin’s N. albus circulo purpureo as 
e description is taken from J. Bauhin’s Historia 
_ and the plant is said to grow in Narbonne and Italy. Daskaneon’ 5 
N. medio pester precox and perhaps N. m. p. maximus are 
included un 
Ray’s renee species 
2. N. medio croceus serotinus Park., with small leaves and 
stellate —— 
to purpureus magno fore deo (N. latifolius vii. 
Clus. ; (te medio purpureus maximus Park.?), a late flowering 
form said to grow in Styria, and probably taken from Clusius’s 
Histo 
4, N. niveus odoratus circulo rubello C. Bauhin — latifolius 
vi. Clus.; NN. medio oe or Park.), a plant with 
narrow leaves, stellate flowers, a mall corona, evidently copied 
from Clusius, and said to be icin above Gaming, in Lower 
Austria. 
It will be noticed that two of these species said by Parkinson 
k ite rom " aeeepanans are referred by Ray to Austrian 
o ae 
‘reo Bauhin as a synonym, and the onl addition is N. albus 
Miller, a little-known plant possibly related to N. triandrus. 
n 1793 a redivision of N. poeticus into three species was 
prpeet by Curtis (Botanical Magazine, No. 193), one of which 
as figured as N. angustifolius. Curtis wri ite. thet under the 
name of N. poeticus three different species S appearing 
perfectly distinct, and regarded as _ by the ‘old botanists, have 
been confounded by the moderns, vi 
le cissus medio perenne see Park. Par. Se albus 
cireulo purpureo, C. Bauhin). 
