NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 7 
5, 
corolla and earlier flowering, and in its far more flattened and 
ena nectary. a Salisb. is stated to be a smaller 
and rather earlier flow lant than N. recurvus and is 
areal, ‘N. foliis 4- Hineasibus glaucis subincurvantibus, petalis 
imbricatis lateribus deflexis ; nectario patellari luteo minutissime 
plant does not agree with that of English Botany. Haworth 
remarks that he can find no account of N. recurvus in authors and 
offers no suggestions respecting its origin 
four species thus recognized by Haworth in 1812 were 
peggy -e: ine iy in his Suppl. Pl. Succ. et Narciss. Revisio, 
POETICUS. Foliis e rectis angustis; corolla lacinizw im- 
bricantes torte ; 3 exteriores oblique recurvantes late obovate 
ucrone valido, 3 interiores, fere horizontales angustiores mucrone 
oo corona mainrs horizontaliter expansa lutea rugosa mar- 
gine s crenulato subrecurvato carmosino croceove; anther 
lo onglore tabu pra e paululum superantes, 3 intra tubum 
umilior 
N. cae Salisb. in Hort. Trans. i. p. 365, at absque ullo 
charactere; N. Poetarum; N. poeticus L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, p. oe , cum 
sequentibus indefinite ; N. medio purpureus precox Par 
n Gracia et in pratis ‘prope Languedoc sec. Salish. le, 
Floret i in "Apsiile 
2. N. rapurtorus. Corolle laciniis horizontalibus spathulato- 
obovatis non imbricatis; corona acetabuliformi ore scarioso crenu- 
radiiflorus Salisb. Prod. p. 225, et Hort. Trans. i. p. 365; 
N. angustifolius Curt. 193; N. medio purpureus stellaris Park. Par. 
Hab. in pratis humidis subalpinis. Helveticis sec. Salisb. J. c. 
Floret in Aprilis. 
This is _ to have leaves scarcely narrower than in the 
i, species, but a more slender scape. 
8, with the diagnosis already ee on * N. patel- 
is Curt. 193, at end; N. pate tellar 1s Sal isb, Pred. p. 995: 
N. poeticus Bing. Bot. 275 ; N. medio purpureus maximus Park. 
Par. Floret Mai 
Variat a. hasta tribus solum extra tubum exertis 
B. exertus pang -flowering). Antheris omnibus con- 
stanter extra tubum exe 
N. medio purpureus ictions Park. 
This variety exertus, which cae saw but once in a 
nursery at Brompton in 1809, is further described as having 
