40 NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 
Series 2. RapmFrnort. 
6. NARCISSUS RADIIFLORUS Salisbury. 
Narrow-leaved saffron-rim of Haworth. 
Narcissus radviflorus Salisb. Prod. 225 (1796), et Trans. Hort. 
Soc. i. 365, excl. syn. (1812); Haworth Narciss. Revis. 149 (1819) ; 
Koch Synopsis, ed. 2, 811 iii Parlatore Fl. Ital. iit. 118 
lato (1906) ; Z: poeticus race N. radiiflorus Rouy FI. Fr. xiii. 54 
sensu lato (1912). 
medio purpureus precocissimus Gerard Herb. 108, cum 
icone (1597) ? 
Icones. i bares Bot. Mag. 193, as N. angustifolius (nomen 
opueaa Nost. tab. fig. 3- 
Bulb ovoid, fora small, about 25 mm. in diameter kone: 
- pits Sti whitish-brown, with well-marked, darker vein 
Leaves erect, nearly equalling the scape, 5-8 mm. broad, gree a pe 
> sadn nt, keeled and slightly channelled. ‘doses 30-40 ¢ 
long, compressed ce, 2-edged, striate, slender. Spathe ae 
membranous; pedicel Breads, sometimes elongate. Flowers 
strongly scented, 6-7 cm B siamekr. with slender, light green 
tube and stellate, greenis A as perianth tinged with yellow at 
the base ; Silage CaT pos, narrowed below, not imbri- 
cate, the 0 r oblanceolate, cuspidate or mucronate, the inner 
more Giiical. acute or Shee all spreading or slightly mente: 
Corona cupular, Saseeee from a narrow base, small, 8-10 m 
broad and ae m. deep, bright yellow ofen sometimes broadly 
a wild a oe Koe o records it ee the Foe ee of 
Trieste and other peek localities, as yee - the Swiss Valais. 
Its occurrence in the latter pro vince, ho r, may be doubted, 
west of the Watais, where N. exertus has pea been mistaken 
probably ora but the more northern Austrian habitats where 
has ecorded should probably be pee to N. stellaris, 
fen agus grown i aga gron iin gu oo 
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