44 NARCISSUS POETICUS AND ITS ALLIES 
Haller but has Ss salir cna identified during the past century 
wit - N. radufloru 
arkinson seems to have been acquainted with it as a rare 
poe bes plant and Haworth described it from a London nursery, 
but there is no ea of its having been at any time commonly 
cultivated in Brita: 
he variety penintay introduced into cultivation from the 
South of France through the Paris firm of Vilmorin about the 
ga stage is now one of “oe most abundant of ie Narcissi in 
Western Europe. Its precise origin is not known, but it may be 
suspected ago the eiuring st and fine plication of its corona, as 
m of its fruit, to be a hybrid of N. exertus with 
N. Marke Sach a parentage, however, is rendered doubtful by 
its flowering in April instead of May, and the facility with which 
it may be forced into bloom still earlier. It has hitherto been 
regarded solely as a garden plant, but as it is balievad to have 
been originally selleieck and probably a wild form, it cannot well 
be excluded from an arrangement of the forms of Eu-Narcissus. 
EXPLANATION OF Froran PLATE. 
(Reproduced from original i if R. A. Salisbury now preserved in 
erb. Mus. Brit 
Figs. 1 and 2.—Flowers of Nareissus here L. (labelled tripodalis 
Fig. 3.—Flower of N. radiiflorus Sal che z ss ‘ 
Fig. 4.—Corona of N. radiiflorus, a ie exserted anthers before dehiscence.. 
Fig. 5.— ae i —— and perianth-t tube of N. radiiflorus, showing subequal 
Fig. 6. —Matare flower of N. patellaris Salisbury, showing anthers after 
cence, 
_ Fig. 7. —Younger flower of N. patellaris, —- —. — dehiscence. 
Fig. 8.—Corona of N. patellaris, with thre exserted a 
Fig. 9. —Opened aad and perianth- ce of N. api rok ra showing unequal 
men 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE paceren Fruits. 
er.) 
(All developed in wa 
Figs. 1 and 46 —— of cultivated Narcissus poeticus, with transverse section. 
Figs. 2 and 2 Sage pf ero ” 
Figs. 3 and “i % mes with transverse section. 
Figs.4and4a— ,, ,, ae r 
Figs. 5 and 5a.— ,, ,, N. majalis ‘var. pa: atellaris ie with’ ‘transverse section, 
and showing thickly membranous spathe. 
; pa 
Figs.Gand6a.— ,, ,, N. falsipores Swh transverse section, and showing 
: y membranous spa 
Figs. 7 and 7a.— ,, ,, N. exertus var. ornatus, with transverse section. 
