562 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
Leaves channeled, one or two to each scape. Flowers bright yellow, 
very fragrant; divisions of perianth spreading and slightly overlapping ; 
crown very shallow, saucer-shaped, the edge faintly round-toothed ; scape 
almost round, slender, 8 to 12 inches high, two- to six-flowered ; April. 
Plate 259a. Queen Anne’s Jonquil is a double variety of this. Several 
varieties. 
N. POETICUS (Poet’s). Bulb about 1 inch thick. Leaves flat, bluntly 
keeled, somewhat glaucous, three or four to a scape. Flowers 2 
inches across, agreeably scented; perianth white; crown saucer-shaped, 
the margin crisped and coloured a bright red; scape two-edged, 
one- (rarely two-) flowered, 12 or 14 inches high; April. Several 
varieties. 
N. PsEuDO-NaARCIssuS (False or Bastard Narcissus). Bulb about 
1} inch thick. Leaves glaucous, nearly flat, five or six toascape. Flowers 
at first erect,then drooping ; perianth pale yellow ; segments lance-shaped ; 
crown as long as perianth-segments, but deeper yellow, an inch across, 
the margin slightly crisped and boldly toothed ; scape two-edged, 1 foot 
high, one-flowered; February or March. Plate 2598. Varieties very 
numerous. 
N. Tazerra (Tazetta). Bulb 14 to 2 inches thick. Leaves somewhat 
flat and glaucous, bluntly keeled, four or six to a scape. Flowers four to 
eight from each scape, powerfully fragrant, a little over an inch across ; 
segments spreading; crown bright yellow, the edge slightly 
lobed or toothed ; scape 1 foot high; March. Plate 260. Varieties 
numerous. 
N. TRIANDRUS (three-stamened). Bulb not more than } inch thick. 
Leaves rush-like, very slender, three or four to a scape. Flowers white, 
horizontal or drooping; tube very slender, cylindrical, perianth 
segments turned back over it; crown conical-bell-shaped; scape 
very slender, one- or ax towennd 6 to 12 inches long; April. Several 
varieties. 
Somewhere about a thousand named varieties are 
grown in gardens, and these are classified in three 
divisions, according to the character of the crown, thus— 
Group I. Maenicoronati, offspring of V. Pseudo-narecissus or N. 
Bulbocodium, with crowns as long as the perianth divisions. 
Group IJ. Meptocoronati, resembling N. triandrus, with inter- 
mediate crowns. 
Group III. Parvicoronatt, descendants of NV. Jonquilla, N. Tazetta, 
and NV. poeticus, with crowns not half as long as the perianth 
divisions. 
Garden Varieties. 
