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A. Crown bell-shaped; leaves broadly linear: — N, 

 Pseudo-narcissus, L., Daffodil, Lent-Lily ; crown as long 

 as the perianth-segments ; meadows, common. N. incom- 

 parabilis, Curt. ; flowers paler, crown bright yellow, half 

 as long as the perianth-segments ; Valais, Ticino. 



B. Crown shallow ; tube of perianth elongated ; leaves 

 nearly flat : — N. poeticus, L. ; flowers large, usually 

 solitary, white, fragrant, crown yellow with a red 

 crenulated border; meadows, local; Southern Switzer- 

 land, Jura, Carinthia, Pyrenees. N. biflorus, Curt. ; 

 flowers large (ij in.), fragrant, usually in pairs, pale 

 yellow, crown dark yellow; Valais, Geneva, Lombardy, 

 Pyrenees. N. radiiflorus, Salisb. ; flower solitary, white, 

 sepals and petals lanceolate, not overlapping, ovary cylin- 

 drical, stem more slender, leaves narrower ; meadows ; 

 Switzerland, Jura, Styria, Savoy. 



C. Tube elongated ; crown saucer-shaped ; leaves 

 subulate or cyhndrical : — N. juncif alius, Req. (PI. Ill); 

 flowers 1-3, yellow, fragrant, crown orange, tube very 

 long and slender, leaves subulate ; Pyrenees. 



Many other species oi Narcissus, especially belonging 

 to the sections Jonquilla and Tazetta, grow in the plains 

 of Lombardy and in the Pyrenean valleys. 



2. Galanthus, L. 



Flowers solitary, white, pendulous, enclosed in a mem- 

 branous spathe; sepals spreading; petals small, erect, 

 with green streaks ; leaves 2, linear. 



G. nivalis, L., Snowdrop ; meadows and orchards ; 

 Switzerland, Pyrenees ; not common. 



