14 NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 
It will be seen, alike hier the rotate corona, the reference to 
Bauhin, and the habitats cited, that Linnaeus had primarily in 
view an early-flowering, flat-crowned form 
The sheet of N. poeticus in the Linnean Herbarium is a garden 
regs showing two flowers and one leaf in fair preservation. 
As a type it is not very adequate, but it can still be seen that the 
leaf is 8mm. broad, and the flowers of maaan size, with a thick 
apaihe deep — perianth-tube, oblong, mucronate segments 
much narrowed below, and the corona Aas cree cup- -shaped 
with the oud hidden owing to lateral compression when 
drying. Though its precise ee at may be indeterminable, 
One of the finest existing plates “of N. poeticus was produced 
in 1807 in Redou ae Liliacee, iii, No. 160. The accompanying 
er ower is 
shown with heediae —_ rianth-segm ments, imbricate above 
rly flat, ket w 
without any boven zone, and showing six pa sre and subequal 
stam Redouté’s description suggests no ee distinctions 
tease his two — eties. 
In 1843 Koch (Synopsis Fl. Germ. ed. 2, p. 811 separated 
from N. poeticus as a distinct species the slender, narrow-leaved 
form with stellate flowers and cupular corona which occurs in 
various mountain and subalpine districts of Central Europe and 
had already been distinguished by pre-Linnean authors. This he 
described as N. radiiflorus Salisb. Prod. 225, and differentiated 
the two Sone thus :— 
oN. cus L. ... ovario sub anthesi gen meee ancipiti, 
corona in svalations laniusculam expansa . us tribus 
stylum paulum superantibus, tribus brevioribus data inclusis, 
perigonti artes ovatis. In pratis etc. reg. calid. 
“ N. raditflorus Salisb. . ovario sub anthesi tereti, corond 
cupulari aeees. . Stamini ibus omnibus cum anthera tubo longi- 
oribus. In montosis et subalpinis. Bulbus magis oblongus quam 
in precedente, planta minor, folia et pears angustiora, ovarium 
gracilius oblongum . . acini perigonii angustiores, magis 
dissite, ah quidem - ++ Nec nives, corona brevis, a basi erecta, 
non oe an a 
This paeent of N. raditflorus recalls Clusius’ s description of 
ne gsaefoline vi from Lower Austria, except in the form of the 
noch’ s two species are illustrated in Reichenbach’s ener 
v. 9, pl. 364 (1847). The figure of N. poeticus (No. 808) is 
different, appearing to represent a dwarf plant with a dirty whitish 
perianth and small — corona, which is perhaps not the 
