28 NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 
N. stellaris is likewise the N. niveus odoratus circulo rubello 
C. Bauhi } 
which indeed seems to be the most widely spread form throughout 
Austria. It is perhaps doubtful, in view of the many points of 
the great difference in the fruits. f 
It will have been noticed that in Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 365, 
Salisbury states that his N. radiiflorus is a native of moist, sub- 
alpine meadows in Switzerland; and at the same time he cites for 
this species Redouté’s figure of N. poeticus. The reasons for thus 
identifying the Swiss Narcissus are not given by Salisbury, but 
V. raditflorus in subsequent works. 
Les Avants and other localities in Western Switzerland, however, 
: i 
if Onh “an 
broader, obscurely trigonous fruits. The flat corona similarly 
distinguishes it from N. stellaris, and at the same time it is clearly 
N. majalis B exertus (Narciss. Revisio, /.c.), which was described 
from a nurse lan 
, See 809 é 
died out in cultivation, as actually happens with the Swiss plant. 
‘to my eyes, a flat and not a 
fruit is that of this Swiss plant or of N. stellaris. I therefore 
think that Salisbury erroneously referred this plate to N. radt- 
drawn agree 
identified with Haworth’s N. majalis var. exertus of the Revisio 
and N. } 
variety exertus 
