NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 11 
formed, cup margined with scarlet; grandiflorus, perianth very 
large, cup suffused with crimson; poetarum (satfron-cupped), 
perianth broad, cup suffused with orange-scarlet; spathulatus 
(lesser saffron-rim), cup small, edged with saffron (said to be out of 
cultivation) ; pron cup full size and margined with saffron. 
* M ay aber 
like spathe, cup alent with — eutiis a. od: 
ark. tab. 75, fi 
petalled)—N. purpureus poet rn ae tab. 75, fig. 2—perianth 
flat, finely formed, with e cup ed 16a with saffron, merit erect; 
verbanus (verbanensis), panei slightly tinged with cream, cup 
edged with saffron; in gardens taller and larger- ‘dowered than 
oe s ec 
n comparing this arrangement with that in Haworth’s 
7 Saeeiew it will be first observed that ornatus and tripodalis 
appear as distinct plants, whereas ripples is pieiit quoted by 
Haworth as a synonym for the other. Barr’s ornatus, however, 
is not the plant of Haworth, but the common por flowering form 
_of the present day sold under that name, which Barr appears to 
have transferred to it, leaving Haworth’s original ornatus as 
tripodalis. It is vtech how Peis eons peel ~t plant has 
ornatus was introduced into Britain, probably about 1870, through 
H. Vilmorin, of Paris, who obtained it first in the South of 
France. 
Of saffron-cupped plants Barr gives two forms, viz.: poetarum, 
described by Haworth, and grandiflorus, following a name sub- 
stituted by Herbert for poetarwm, but now taken to represent a 
separate form not previously distinguished. Among the late 
flowering forms the most noteworthy points are that Barr distin- 
guishes stellaris by its bladder-like spathe, a curious feature not 
mentioned by any of the older writers and not shown in Sweet’s 
very accurate pute: and introduces poeticus of — wus as & 
owers 
rr’s arrangement ‘of these plants was soon followed by an 
cevinabe different classification in Mr. Baker's Amaryllidea, p. 11 
specific type is said to flower in May, a wet patellaris sont 
= on peels N. spathulatus Haw., N. Ait ris H recu 
, N. poetarum Haw. and N. tripodalis Salisb, ax previ 
