10 NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 
* Date flowering, May. 
(6) majalis Eng. Bot. 275, (7) recwrvus, (8) patellaris, (9) stel- 
7-2)—a dwarf f with very 
Of these varieties Herbert states that he doe mh know 
ornatus, ueuliiae or albus, and as the first of ie was a 
in his day (vide Haworth’s eatin 
above), it xe neciil that, like Curtis, he confused it with 
angustifolins From this it is fairly clear that his knowledge of 
s Narcissi lacked the critical accuracy shown by Haworth. 
The Sxiie of var. verbanensis, which is somewhat crude, portrays 
a slender plant with oblong or elliptic, acute and riage e rpm 
perianth-segments, and a small, cupped corona with men 
only exserted. An apparently authentic specimen eee fa 
Herb. Kew shows narrow and rigidly defend Seetuibhn -segments— 
a feature that may be suspected of resulting from the flower being 
already faded when pressed, and not a real character of the living 
plant. The dwarf Narcissi of the hills above Baveno certainly do 
not show such flowers, and their perianth-segments are generally 
broad and imbricated. Besides the Bago verbanensis, majalis, 
siete and patellaris i ee pte by Herbert, but their features 
are ambiguous and Sai not easy to see what differences are 
Fikdndedl to be indic 
After Herbert’s time — in me degen languished in Britain, 
and no further systematic work on them appeared till Burbidge 
& Baker's The Warder wis published | in 1875. In this book - 
the forms are placed under one species, N. poeticus L., of wh 
the type is said to flower late in April. Five varieties are tell 
viz. radtiflorus (N. is Slap Curt), stellaris (N. stellaris eae: 
recurvus (N. recurvus Haw.), poetarum (N. poetarum — gured 
as aurantiacus, aie verbanensis Herbert; and it i Me that 
N. s — Haw. ee tea differs = ma and that 
rnatus Haw. is similar to var. poetar 
eaph after the publication of The Retviis the late Mr. Peter 
Barr began to revive interest in the cultivation of Daffodils, and 
for several years endeavoured to re-collect and identify the plants 
described by Haworth and other older botanists, some of which 
had been almost forgotten. The result of this work appeared in 
1884 in a fresh classified list — in sii soil and ee 
and practically reproduced the s n Ye Narcissus “ 
Daffodyl Flowre, in which F. W. Besides Pedlaticealod: “This list 
has formed the basis of modern horticultural catalogues, and in it 
a y into ly 
and late flowering varieties, and proceeds to follow Haworth, but 
ome et alterations. His arrangement of Poet's 
Narcissi stands thus 
* Harly flowering. 
angustifolius (radiiflorus), perianth narrow, cup margined orange- 
red; ornatus (fat-crowned ee saffron-rim), perianth broad and well 
