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DAFFODILL. 
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i a flower is formed of a long, tubular body, and fix petals. This tubular part is by common 
writers called the cup of the flower, 
jnferted into it above the bafe. 
but is its nectarium 5 and the petals are oblong, and are 
The feed veffel is roundifh, but marked with three ridges ; and the 
{cabbard enclofing the flowers before they open, is oblong and flatted. 
Linneus places this among the bexandria monogynia ; the threads being fix, and the ftyle fingle in 
the flower. 
DIVISION I, 
1. Wild Englith Daffodill. 
Narcifus fylvefris pallidus. 
The root is fmall, and roundifh. 
‘The leaves are narrow and long, and of a ftrong 
reen. 
The ftalk is upright, and a foot high ; and on 
its top ftands a fingle flower. This is large and 
yellow : the edge of the neétarium or tubular part 
is waved, and the petals are paler than this 
art. 
We have it frequent wild in the north of Eng- 
land in damp paftures, flowering in April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Narcifus flveftris pallidus 
calyce luteo, Others, Pfeudo-narciffus Anglicus. 
DIVISION IL 
Ruth-leaved Daffodill, called Junquille. 
Noareiffus juncifolius vulgaris. 
The root is fmall, and roundifh. 
The leaves are long, flender, hollow, rounded, 
and of a deep green. 
The ftalk rifes in the midft; and is flender, 
and a foot high. 
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BRITISH 
FOREIGN 
SPECIES. 
2. Pale Daffodill, called Primrofe-Peerlefs. 
Narciffus medio luteus vulgaris. 
The root is {mall, and roundith. 
The leaves are long, and fomewhat broad, 
ftriated, and of a pale green. 
‘The ftalk is flatted, anda foot high, 
The flowers are very beautiful. 
The petals are large, and of an extreme pale 
yellowith, little more than we call cream-colour, 
and the nectarium is fmall and yellow. e 
We have it wild in the north of England, an 
it is frequent in gardens, 
C. Bauhine calls it Narciffus pallidus medio [u- 
teo. Others, Narciffus medio luteus. 
SPECIES. 
The flowers are of a beautiful pale yellow, and 
very {weet. 
It isa native of the Eaft, but is kept every where 
a gardens, where culture raifes many varieties 
of it. 
C. Bauhine calls it Narciffus juncifolius; a name 
copied by others. 
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STAR OF BETHLEHEM. 
ORNITHOGALUM. 
A Bee flower is cotnpofed of fix petals, which remain after they have loft their colour. They 
have no cup. The feed-veffel is roundifh, but has three ridges ; 
at the bafe of all the footftalks of the flowers. 
and there are a kind of films 
Linnaeus places this, with many other of the bulbous plants, among the hexandria monogynia. 
DIVISION IL 
t. Wild, fpiked Star of Bethlehem. 
Ornithogalum anguftifolium fpicatum flore ex albo 
4 virente. 
The root is round, large, and white. 
The leaves are long, narrow, and of a pale 
green. 
The ftalk is round, upright, and two feet high. 
’ The flowers ftand in a long fpike at the top, 
and are of a greenifh white. 
It is found wild in our weftern counties, and 
flowers in April. 
BRITISH SPECIES. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ornithogalum anguftifolium 
majus. 
2. Common'Star of Bethlehem. 
Ornithogalum vulgare. 
The root is large, round, and white. 
The ‘leaves are numerous, very narrow, long; 
and of a dark green. 
The ftalk is round, upright, and eight inches 
high. 
The flowers grow in a kind of umbel, not 4 
I : Spike; 
