20 NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 
corona is the basis of Mr. Baker’s primary division of the genus. 
Major A. H. Wolley-Dod informs me that on the Italian Riviera 
the perianth of the wild Narcissus Tazetta also is remarkably 
variable. 
The features of the corona in some of the species of the older 
botanists have been obscured by the curious terms that have been 
used in its description. The word “ patellaris,’” which was first 
employed by Salisbury as a specific epithet for the broad-leaved, 
ay-flowering form well known in his day has been especially 
misunderstood by recent writers, who have assumed that it indi- 
cates a flat or plate-like corona. That this is not so may be seen 
was likewise accepted in the same sense by Haworth, 
who applied it to the forms with cup-like coronas, such as 
recurvus, patellaris and stellaris, while for the flat crowns the 
term “subdiscoidea” or ‘“complanatim expansa” is commonly 
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pplied orona of N. 
Salisbury in contrast to the cotyliform corona of N. patellaris; 
and copied by Haworth. In these two plants the corona 1s 
almost equally cup-shaped, but in N. radiiflorus it is very much 
ther i 
% pint, while a “‘xordan” was a cup or measure of 3 pint, and it 
looks far-fetched, that 
y reasonably compate 
It is clear that the wild forms in their different habitats have not 
otanists having a good critical 
