94 NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 
the interval, the validity of the name N. radiifiorus can scarcely | 
be questioned. . 
he name to be retained for the late- flowering plant ect | 
without figure or es on N. medio-purpureus ne 2 
Park. and N. albus magno odore flore circulo pallido C. Bauhin ; 4 
Salisbury’ s N. patellaris firat o on ete ajalis Curt. and N. latifolius 
vii Clusius, to which N. m. p. serotinus Park., N. poeticus Sm. in 
Eng. Bot. and the specimen of the Linnean Herbarium were 
afterwards added. But it is questionable whether all of these 
citations refer to precisely the same plant. It will be recalled 
that Parkinson distinguishes two somewhat similar late-flowering 
forms under the names of serotinus and maximus, whereof the 
latter only is figured; and that what may well be the same two 
plants are described by J. Bauhin (Historia, 1. c.) as N. medio- 
purpureus (with a figure) and N. medio-purpureus magno flore ; 
She adeeb ae Hist. vii). This larger plant is also the 
reulo ee ido of C. Bauhin, and thus the lesser and 
sole iene. were included both under N. majalis and 
N. patellaris. Curtis's name, being the earlier, must therefore be 
used if the forms are unite eis r one species. From Salisbury’s 
N. albus magno odore ak circulo all ido C. Bauhin. The larger 
plant, according to both Salisbury and Haworth, is the N. poeticus 
of English Botany, the plate of which, with Haworth’s description, 
sufficiently fixes its characteristic features, and shows that except 
for its taller habit, larger leaves, and broader white zone to its 
t. 
leaves eh ped narrower. The general similarity of these 
two plants has been confirmed i 
