16 NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 
“B. spathulatus (N. spathulatus Haw.) [fiowers smaller, earlier 
than in the type]; C. poetarum ee cpseniee aie [flowers larger 
with reddish Spee D. tripedalis (sic) (N. ornatus Haw.) [with 
narrower, reflexed perianth-segm ents]; E. an ella (N. patellaris 
Salisb.) cena a in bea perianth-segments; a frequent 
hoe a late-flowering]|; F. stellaris (N. tellagis Haw.) [late- 
flowering, to which, cra eam to Baker, belongs N. recurvus Haw., 
with, ihoopitg fa leay 
This list of rates has evidently been taken bodily from Mr. 
Baker’s Amaryllideg@, with results not entirely fortunate. It may 
well be doubted whether N. ¥ ela flowers earlier than the 
authors’ type, which does not seem to be the plant regarded in 
this light by Mr. Baker; and the Saori’ that NV. patellaris, now 
nearly extinct in British gardens, is a frequent garden plant seems 
open “ question, although it may still be correct for Germany, 
where it was observed by Clusius. But-it appears possible that 
the collaborateurs have confused it with N. recurvus, which they 
have ene ae N. stellaris through a curious misreading of 
Mr. Baker’s 
Under er subspecies ths face Ascherson & Graebner give 
three further forms, viz.:—B. verbanensis, the plant described by 
Herbert; C. fallas (N. radifloras, fallax Beck), with Sara 
imbricated perianth- -segments, f ound in Herzegovina and Kiis 
land; and D. stellt iflorus (N. sot eps Schur), stated to . 
smaller flowers and shorter, obovate 
’s Flore de France, v. xiii, p. 53 (1912), follows the cinch 
ment of Ascherson & Graebner, _— by the reduction 
N. angustifolius Curt, for which the name N. radssficrll Salish. 
Prodr. is used, from a subspecies to a oe ace.” N. majalis Curt. 
is ate as a synonym of the type, but of Salisbury’s N. patellaris 
all of Haworth’s names no mention is made, and no varieties 
are pchias ded except what seems to be the colour-form sulphureus 
previously noticed by Grenier & Godron. WN. biflorus Curtis 
ra 
allusions to the occurrence of different forms ther e by pre 
Linnean and other early authors, this cursory Sdieacak is aioe 
unsatisfactory. 
The botanical history of the Poet’s Narcissi has now been 
generally traced. It has been seen that several forms were distin- 
guished by early authors, chiefly in the first half of the seventeenth 
century, both in Britain and on the Continent. They were known 
ists, however, seems to have been permanently over- 
eked by! later Continental writers, gee since the time of Linnzeus, 
have recognized not more than two species, both widely distri- 
buted natives of Southern Europe, and have almost entirely 
neglected the other forms, which have been ieee ee solely as 
