NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 23 
Cliff., too, as also those in Royen’s Fl. Leydensis and Sauvages’s 
Meth. FI. Monspeliensis, likewise refer to an early-blooming flat- 
crowned form where they can be identified, with two possible 
exceptions, viz.:—N. medio-purpureus of J. Bauhin’s Historia, the 
description and figure of which evidently represent a form or ally 
of N. majalis, and N, albus circulo croceo vel luteo of C. Bauhin’s 
Pinax. In the Historia, however, it seems possible from the 
habitats mentioned that the early flat-crowned plant, which is 
to be a fist-o wpe differing from N. albus circulo purpureo 
in ee solos, of ‘th corona-margin and is perhaps the common 
Swiss Narcissus, although this identification has not been 
established O innzeus’s remaining citations, that from 
circulo purpureo of C. Bauhin’s Pinax is conclusively shown by 
to b 
its synonyms to be the early-flowering, flat-crowned plant of 
Narbonne, and it is important to note that this was selected by 
fore, the somewhat ambiguous indirect citation from J. Bauhin 
can scarcely be held a sound basis for including this latter plant 
under N. poeticus Linn. in Spec. Plant.,and it seems preferable to 
follow the authors who restricted this name to the flat-crowned 
forms rather than to regard it as covering also those with cupped 
coronas and to apply it strictly, as Haworth di ally in his 
been indifferently nam odern works N. angustifolius Curt 
an radiiflorus Salisb. The earlier author, Curtis, figures the 
plant intended with sufficient copra at but furnishes no descrip- 
tion, and no do his citations fr arkinson and n 
refer to the flat-crowned N. poeticus L, , but all of his numerous 
ynonyms likewise apply to that plant, as does also the Narbonne 
locality which he s a habitat t is seapten therefore, 
The next name, N. radiflorus, is accompanied by a brief but 
explicit mae in Salisbury’s Prodromus which clearly describes 
the plant figured by Curtis, although the es in toto of that 
author’s N. angustifolius as ® synonym is not entirely accurate. 
At that date Salisbury, like Curtis, did not fully appreciate the 
difference between this plant and N. poeticus, but as he amended 
this in Hort. Trans, of 1812, and no fresh name was published in 
