NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 5 
2. Narcissus medio purpureus serotinus, Park. Par. (N. albus 
magno odor sid circulo pallido, au 
3. Nar s medio luteus vulgaris, Park. Par. (N. pallidus 
curculo hited; C. Bauh.). 
“The two former of these have ew —_ papi . having 
a very short nectary edged with orange. . . e the name 
poeticus is equally suitable to both . . . we e hav ee dhchaght best to 
get rid of it i av 2 and to substitute for aj pA for 
2, magalis ; for 3, biflorus.’ 
«The angustifolius here figured is a native of the South of 
in the meadows about Narbonne and Montpelier. owers in 
our gardens early in April, about a month before the ea and 
full six weeks sooner than the majalis 
nosis of N. angustifolius is furnished, but there is a 
er with narrowly obovate, spreading perianth-segments, and 
seemingly a small, — corona margined with deep red and 
with all the stamens exserted. 
Of N. majalis Curtis, ieee no account; the name is based 
solely on the references to Parkinson and Bauhin. N. biflorus is 
the well-known plant—not a yee Poet’s Nareissus—which Curtis 
subsequently described and 
oon after Curtis’s publication, Pe Reta AS oe ah sia 
were described under fresh name hard A. Salisbury (Pr 
dromus Stirp. Hort. Chapel Aerio, ‘A “295 (1796) e as 5 ballad 
“N. rapurtorus. Germine pyriformi; corolla laciniis incur- 
vulo-horizontalibus, obovatis, interioribus vix imbricatis ; coron& 
acetabuliformi, anges crenulata; antheris omnibus extra tubum. 
“N. @ us Curt. Bot, Mag. 193, cum ic.; N. poeticus 
Linn. Hew. et So PL. ed. 2, p. 4 
«N. pareLiarts. Germine ovali; ; corolle laciniis ggiiee 
horizontalibus, obovatis, interioribus imbricatis; corona cotyli- 
ormi, scarioso-crenulata ; antheris tribus intra tubum 
majalis Curt. Bot. Mag. sub 193; N. jadifiias: vii. Clusius, 
Hist PI. lib. 2, p. 157. 
‘‘Germen in hoc pregrande.” 
Some years later (Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 365 (1812) ) Salisbury 
subdivided N. eect into two species, pias furnished no further 
——- The original name, with N. angustifolius Curt. and 
b perparens atelier’ ts Park. as spears is retained tor a 
plant said to grow in Swiss subalpine meadows, and to flow 
English gardens early in April. No reasons are ‘altro for hes 
identifying a Swiss subalpine plant with the flowering 
arden form known in Britain. The second species is named 
- poeticus MSS. (N. medio p sialon precox Park.), and is sinha 
o be the true Narcissus of the poets and to flower immediatel 
nite er N. radiiflorus. Salisbury mentions that he had wild — 
of this plant sent by Broussonet from Montpelier, in S. Fran 
The MS. of this paper is preserved in Herb. Mus. Brit., Logethioe 
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