42 NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 
8. Narcissus PoETARUM Haworth. 
Saffron-cupped Narcissus of Haworth. 
Narcissus poetarum Haworth Mon. — 14 (1831); N. 
peony var. grandiflorus Sabine MS. ap. Herbert Amaryll. 317 
(183 ve N. poeticus var. poetarum Buthidne & Baker Narciss. 
85 (187 
Bulb ovoid, rather small, about 25 mm. in diameter, ran 
scales greyish-brown with strongly marked dark veins. Leave 
erect or sometimes with drooping tips, nearly equalling the nas 
Scape 30-50 cm. long, sem compressed, obscurely striate, slender. 
Sitka rather thickly ranous, narrow and very long (equal- 
ling or exceeding 7 ea); as cel ie elongate. Flower 
strongly scented, about 7 cm. in diameter, with relatively short, 
scarcely flattened, green tube and sndwowhite perianth ; perianth- 
segments not imbricate, much narrowed and scarcely contiguous 
below, elliptic- obovate, subacute and sometimes mucronate, al 
spreading and more or less irregularly undulate. Corona s 
discoid, about 13 mm. broad, deep yellow suffused throughout 
with bright red, but soon becoming paler, strongly and irregularly 
plicate-rugose with plicate-crenulate-dentate margin. Stamens 
subequal, with all the anthers more or less meg style 
exserted, a little exceeding the fongee stamens. Fru mm 
long, narrowly ellipsoid, scarcely trigonous or furrow a, 
This distinct and beautiful Narcissus, which flowers in English 
9. NARCISSUS EXERTUS, nov. comb 
Middle flowering Narcissus of Haworth. 
Narcissus exertus nov. comb.; N. majalis B en Haworth 
Narciss. Revie, 150 (1819); N. poeticus var. y Haworth Mon. 
Narciss. 15 (1831); N. longipetals Schleicher in Steudel Nomen- 
clator (nomen nudum); N. radizflorus auct. nonnull. non Salisb. 
N. albus cireulo croceo luteo C. Bauhin Pin. 49 (1623) ? ; 
N. medio croceus serotinus Park. Par. 74 (1629) ?; N. uniflorus 
(ines, ensiformibus scypho ‘eta Haller Hist. n. 1250 
Icon.—Redouté Liliacea, iii. 160, as N. poet 
Bulb ovoid, small, 20-25 mm. in diameter (wld), outer scales 
ea brown. Leaves erect, rather shorter than the scape, 6-9 mm, 
cented, 
diameter, with slender, pale-g tube — pam EPR perianth 
: variable ae, —— with jlow at the base; perian eh er 
