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it has given place, like N. poeticus, to N. evertus var. ornatus and 
other newer forms 
Both in its native habitats and in British gardens it flowers in 
April, and its stellate, greenish-white flowers are so distinct from 
those of the other cultivated Poet’s Narcissi ~~ it bade rth 
should not be entirely banished from our gardens. It is said to 
na one of the species from which early flowers i abbainahls by 
oreing, 
7. NARCISSUS STELLARIS Haworth. 
Starry purple-ringed Daffodill of ao 
Long-petalled saffron-rim of Haw 
Narcissus stellaris Haworth Mon. Narciss. 15 5 (1831); Sweet 
Brit. Fl. sen rden, No. 132 (1833) ; N. pbk tedta Schur PI. 
Transs. 657 (1 866) ?; N. stelliflorus Sch CHsterr. Bot. 
Zeitsch. xix. 205 (1869); N. i aot: inl. non Salish. 
fe) 
N. lat tifolius vi arpa Hist. Rar. Pl. ii. 156 (1601); N. niveus 
odoratus circulo rubello C. Bauhin Pin. 48 (1623), et ey Hist. ii. 
1133 (1688); N. ap purpureus stellaris Park. Par. 76 et 75, £.4 
1629); N. Wr -purpureus minor J. Bauhin Hist. Pl. ii. 600, 
cum icone (16 
eee l.c., No. 182. 
Bulb ovoid, pihee small. Leaves erect, shorter than the 
scape, 6-8 mm. broad, green or glaucous, keeled and channelled. 
Scape 30-40 cm. long, 2-edged and slightly compressed, striate, 
rather slender and attenuate above. Spathe thinly sheeted 
rather short; pedicel slender. Flower scented, 55-6:5 cm. in 
narr below, distant we asteseatld an mts imbricate, the outer 
seoriten obovate, "the inner oblanceolate, all acute or sharply mucro- 
nate, s reading, s sometimes undulate or twisted. Corona shortly 
eupaine,. rather small, about 10 mm. broad and 2 mm. deep, yellow 
-with avery narrow white zone within the narrow scarlet-red edge, 
Stamens subequal, with all the 
Style not exceeding stamens. 
Fruit aout 15 mm. long, shortly siete or obovoid, trigonous 
and fur 
Doveriptiois adopted chiefly from Haworth and Swee 
This species, first distinguished by Clusius, is dele distri- 
buted in the mountainous regions of Austria irom the Tyrol to 
Transylvania, in which province what appears to be a form of it 
chas been described under the name of N. seriorflorens Schur. It 
may also occur in the Balkan Peninsula. 
Although known to Parkinson and Haworth, it does not seem 
to have been extensively grown at any period in English gardens, 
possibly because it does not readily flourish under rar ee “ 
is a late-flowering plant, never 2 ee before May, and o 
during June in its statio 
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