48o AMARYLLIDE.'E 



Stamens 6, alternately shorter, with versatile anthers. (Named 

 after Narcissus, a youth said in Greek mythology to have been 

 changed into a flower.) 



I. N. Pseiido-narcissus (Common Daffodil, Lent Lily), — A 

 beautiful and favourite flower, with glaucous, blunt, nearly flat 

 leaves ; a hollow, glaucous peduncle less than a foot high, bearing 



GALANTHU^ NU'AlIS (^SnOWih'i''/'). 



LEUCIJJL'^1 .EbriVL.M {Sj/I>!»ie^' Sitor<'f7,ikt^. 



one flower, the long, bell-shaped, deep golden coronet of which is 

 nearly as long as the pale yellow perianjh-leaves, and is notched 

 and curled at its margin. — Woods and pastures ; frequent. — Fl. 

 March, April. I-'erennial. 



* Several (.ither species of Narcissus, such as A\ biflorus. with a 

 2-nowered scape, and N .poeticus,\.\\e rheasant's-e\-e Daffodil, with 

 a spreading, white perianth, and small, -yellow, cup-shaped, red- 



