Narcissus.] AMAEYLLIDACEiE. 497 



within which are the stamens. Anthers dehisciag longitudinally. 

 Flowers from a spatha. 



Elegant bulbous plants, wilh white or yellow often highly fragrant flowers, 

 natives of the South of Europe, West of Asia and North of Africa. Of all the 

 numerous species not one is indigenous to the American continent. 



_ 1. N. Pseudo-narcissus, L. Common Daffodil, vulg. Daffadown- 

 dilly. Vect. Lent or Lenten Lily. * Spathe single-flowered, cup 

 campanulate erect the margin obscurely 6-lobed crisped as long 

 as the ovato-acute segments of the perianth, leaves about as tali 

 as the scape. Sm. E. Fl. ii. 133. Br. Fl. 430. Bab. Man. 299. 

 Bert. Fl. Ital. iv. 17. E. B. i. t. 17. Fl. Dan. xiii. t. 2170. 



/3. Flowers double or semidouble. 



y. concolor. Smaller; segments of the perianth coloured, nearly flat, but little 

 spreading. N. Pseudo-narcissus, Brot. Fl. Lusit. i. p. 549? N. Pseudo-narcis- 

 sus /3., Bert. Fl. Ital. iv. 18. 



" Daffodils, 



That come before the swallow dares, and lake 

 The winds of March with beauty." 



Winter s Tale. 



" When Daffodils begin to peer, — 

 With, heigh ! the doxy over the dale, — 

 Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year. 

 For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale." 



Winter^s Tale. 



Tn moist woods, copses, orchards, meadows, pastures, and on grassy banks ; 

 abundant in many places, and truly indigenous. Fl. March,f April. Fr. June. 



E. Med. — Plentiful in Quarr copse, especially at the end near the old abbey 

 walls, and in the field they enclose. In considerable plenty in one part of the 

 large copse (Puckelt's copse) between Quarr abbey and Niiiham, 1845. In very 

 great profusion underneath the rookery at Nunwell. In a field close by Ninham 

 farm, near Ryde. Sparingly in Marina wood by Apley, and in that along the 

 shore between Ryde and Binstead. Wood near St. Helens, and coverinj;- acres 

 in Centurion's copse. Abundant in Firestone copse, from whence the chil<lren 

 bring large bouquets of the flowers in the spring to Ryde. Field by Guildford 

 farm, near Haven street; and in one by Coppid hall. On hedgebanks and bor- 

 ders of fields along the road at Sandford, and at Appuklurcombe. In vast pro- 

 fusion and very fine all over a wood, chiefly of beech, known as Bottom wood, 

 occupying a valley between two slopes close to Sandford, on the S. side of the vil- 

 lage, and in a large pasture adjoining, also in several fields about Winston farm, 

 1843. In a little copse near Woodhouse farm, Fernhill, abundant, 1843. In a 

 large pasture-field a little S.E. of Hardingshoot farm, with Tulipa syUestris, 1846. 

 Field at Wootton bridge, nearly opposite Kite hill. In the greatest profusion on 

 the N. and E. sides of the mount on which the church at Godshill stands. Rev. 

 Wm. Darwin Fox!!! Field at Winston or Winson, [the late] Edward Vernon, 

 Esq. .'.'.' 



* Corrupted in some places into Lantern Lilies. Daffodil or Affodil seems to 

 be a mere corruption of Asphodel ; Asphodelus, Lat. AaOo^rihoi. See Turner's 

 Herball. p. 24. 



f In the extraordinarily mild season of 1846 the wild Daffodil was in full 

 flower soon after the middle of February. 



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