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and it may be the form recorded by Boissier and Halacsy for Mt. 
(Sta and for Beeotia, the home of the Narcissus of classical legend. 
It flowers during May in —— gardens and about a month 
later in the mountains of Greece 
4. Narcissus REcuRVUS Haworth. 
Drooping-leaved saffron-rim of sarigeatces 
ch Pheasant’s Eye Narcissus auct. re eth 
Narcissus recurvus Haworth Syn. Pl. Base. ees 331 (1812) : 
Sap eee eee 151 (1819); Mon. Nareiss. 15 (1831) ; Sweet Brit. 
1. Garden, No. 188 (1833); N. curvilobus Salisb. MS. 
con.—Sweet, l. ¢ 
Bulb akgee Sssienk: ovoid, pee ieie mm. in diameter when 
cultivated but smaller when wild, outer scales pale brown with 
fine, darker veins, Leaves lar ge ‘pasa and drooping in upper 
quarter, about as long as fwd cape, 10-13 mm. broad, glaucous, 
obscurely keeled and Se in lower half and nearly flat 
above. Scape 30-45 c a 6 2-edged but Little compressed, 
constant form, slightly greenish at the very base; perzanth- 
segments thick, shortly narrowed and imbricate below, the outer 
oval, truncate or retuse, aes the enner ovate- oblong, obtuse, 
mucronate, all rigidly arcuate- recurved with laterally inflexed 
margins. Corona sndatate: spall with margins ascending from 
a eae narrow centre, esas large, 1 d and 
mm. deep, g : 
beyond, with SF eaftir bea broad age of deep red, within which a 
whitish zone may rarely appear after maturity, much plicate- 
rugose with irregularly plicate- sraialste. dentate margin. Stamens 
very unequal, with three anthers nathan “a0 and three 
h a coloured cae Style included or very teat 
exserted, <a equalling the ode stamens, sometimes 
almost as long as at large, nearly 20 mm. 
— ey or less eragelaaty Rocha Wiebke with three deep 
furr 
2 inten Haworth Mon. Narciss. 15 (1831 
Leaves much narrower than in the type, glaucescent, less flat 
a few only recurved, the others a. tall as the cue 
scape; red margin of the corona often 
ihe description of the variety islets nai been adopted from 
rth. 
Haw 
N. recurvus, which has not hitherto been re 
plant, has the appearance of indigenity in a few localities (alt. 
46000 ft.) in the Valais of Switzerland, where it flowers early in 
June. Its origin in cultivation is not certainly known, but it = 
Seems es teen a rare - introduced about the beginning = 
