TINY OE EUSH 

 DAFFODIL. 



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UK family of Eusb .laffudil^ is 

 ;i large ona, tiut the jilaul 

 befoii' us is I /le rush daf- 

 fodil, and very different 

 from the basket-lluwered 

 daffodil, the gay corlnilaria 

 which sometimes hears 

 (he name. There arc not 

 many eultivators of the 

 rush (ir tiny daffodil, tin 

 its smalluess is an offenee 

 against the popular ex- 

 pectation. Its beauty prij- 

 elaims itself to those who 

 have eyes to see, for it 

 is one of the loveliest of 

 the family. For a quick 

 lesson in the characters of 

 narcissi, it may be com- 

 pared with corbularia, all the forms of which are classed 

 by Parkinson as F-'it'iido-narci-s.-iu's jinicifoliiix, because of 

 their narrow, rush-like leaves. The comparison will show 

 striking differences in the leaves, and much more striking 

 dilferences in the flowers, and enable any one not learned 



