HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 'x\llium. 91 



Ls. numerous. Pet. uniform ; top green. ■ , 



NARCISSUS.' Narcissus, or Daffodil. 



N. Pseudo^ -narcissus . Common Daffodil. Flowers 

 solitary. Cup of the nectary bell-shaped, erect, crisped, 

 with six marginal segments ; its length equal to that of 

 the egg-shaped petals. E. B. I7. Pseudo-narcissus 

 anglicus. G. E. 133. 

 Rather moist woods, thickets. Noke Woods. Sb. North side of 



Shotover Hill. (Bagley Wood.) Bx. 

 Per. April. 



Bulbous. Ls. erect, linear, with a blunt keel, and flat edges. FL 

 drooping, large ; pet. lemon-yellow. Ned. large, deep-yellow. 

 One of the most beautiful of our native plants, i^/. anti-spasmo- 

 dic. By some the fl. considered a kind of specific in hooping- 

 cough. The extract of them in small doses only. Two or three 

 drachms would destroy life in a few hours ; half a grain, to one 

 to two grains, every two, four, or six hours, according to patient's 

 strength. Riclmrd. Decoction of the roots purgative. G. E, 



'ALLIUM. Gadick.3 



* Stem leafy. Leaves somewhat cylindrical. 



(A. olerdceum. Streaked Field Garlick. Umbel lax, 

 bearing bulbs. Leaves semicylindrical, tubular, rough ; 

 channelled above ; ribbed beneath. Bracteas pointed, 

 longer than the umbel. Stamens simple, awl-shaped. 

 E. B. 488. A. sive Moly montanum tertium. G. E. 

 188. 



Cornfields, and their borders. Rosall. Pn. What county ? 



Per. July. 



Fl. reddish. Germ, rough at the top.) 



A. vinedle. Crow G. Umbel spherical, bearing bulbs. 

 Leaves cylindrical, smooth. Three alternate stamens 

 deeply three-cleft. E. B. 1974. A. sylvestre. G. 

 E. 179. 



Dry pastures, cornfields, waste ground, especially on chalk, or gravel. 

 Sm.. Meadows, near the Botley Road. Between Caversham 

 and Mapledurham, Sb. Walls of Godstow Nunnery. Bx. 



Per. June. 



Root egg-shaped, bulbous. Stem two f. slender, upright, round, 



1 From the youth supposed to be changed into the flower. Ovid. Metam. 

 * Pseudo, i. e. false, to distinguish this species from the True N, of the 

 ancients, or N. poeticits. 

 3 Garleac. Ang.-Sax. 



