34 NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 
Series 1. Porrrct. 
1. Narcissus porricus Linn. 
True Poet’s Narcissus. 
Timely purple-ringed Daffodill of Gerard. 
Early purple-ringed Daffodill of Parkinson. 
Flat-crowned saffron-rim of Haworth. 
Narcissus poeticus L. Spec. Plant. 289 (1753) non ejusdem 
herb.; Salisbury in Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 365 (1812) ; Haworth 
Narciss. Revis. 148 (1819); Koch Synop. Fl. Germ., ed. 2, 811 
ynop. ili. 396, sensu lato (1906); Rouy Fl xiii. 53, sensu 
lato (1912); N. tripodalis Salish. MS.; N. ornatus Haworth Mon. 
Narciss. 14 (1831). 
N. poeticus mediocroceus purpureus Lobel Stirp. Adv. Noy. 50 
N. medio purpureus precox Gerard Herb. 108 (1597) ; 
N. latifolius alter Clusius Hist. Rar. Pl. ii. 156 (1601); NV. albus 
circulo purpure Bauh ( 
precoz Park. Par. 76 et 75, f. 
con.—Nost. tab. fig. 1 and 2. 
Ib ovoid or ovoid-elongate, 25-30 mm. in. diameter when 
cultivated, smaller wild, outer scales pale brown with fine, darker 
veins. Leay m 
green or glaucescent, distinctly keeled and channelled. Scape 
30-40 em. long, compressed and 2-edged, striate, moderately 
stout but sometimes attenuate above. Spathe more or less 
anthers exserted, three incl the perianth-tube; style 
sometimes included, sometimes equalling or slightly exceeding 
the longer stamens. Fruit about 15 mm. ong, broadly ellipsoid, 
obscurely trigonous with 3 faint furrows. 
renean forms sometimes show longer and thicker spathes, 
narrower perianth-segments and a greater development of the red 
colouring in the corona. 
The type of N. poeticus, which flowers naturally in March or 
early April, has been known since the time of Lobel and Clusius 
as ae pag Mat Poet’s Narcissus of the vate of France, 
and was recorded by Magnolius as growing near Montpelier in _ 
company with the late-flowering Meanaiilee. It is also a native — 
