6 NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 
with an unpublished continuation which deals further with N. 
patellaris. Of this, N. poeticus Smith in E. B. 275, N. majalis 
; a : ; Neti 
odromus. : 
The British Museum Herbarium contains, in addition to his 
manuscripts, a fine set of original drawings of various Narcissi 
by Salis : 
ones, all contiguous, a cor it three stamens 
exserted; (2) radiiflorus (not legibly labelled), having flowers 
with narrowly obovate, dist egments, and very small, cupular 
lle 
ing the corona; (3) patellaris, with oval, imbricated perianth-seg- 
ents, large, cupular, fimbriate corona, and unequal stamens; and 
(4) curvilobus MS. (= recurvus Haworth), the common Pheasant’s 
Hye of present-day gardens. 
British 
plant in English Botany, No. B75 1795), where Smith cites 
N. majalis Curt. in Synonymy and adds that the Linnean Her- 
barium confirms that his plant is the true species of Linneus. 
The brief description mentions that the leaves are more than half 
an inch broad and the nectary bordered with orange or rather 
and accurate that we possess. His first publication on Narciss 
which N. poeticus and N. angustifolius are included as distinct 
