Qo 
aoe Amaryllidee—L cucoium. 
2. L.céstivum (fiz. 236). Summer Snowflake.—This species 
flowers in July. This and the foregoing both resemble the 
Snowdrop, but they are taller 
in stature ; and this has seve- 
ral-flowered scapes. Both are 
natives of Europe. 
7. NARCISSUS. 
Bulbous plants witb all the 
leaves radical, linear and nar- 
row.  Seapes one or more 
flowered ; flowers spathose, 
white or some shade of yellow. 
Perianth tubular below, with 
an appendage at the mouth 
called a crown or corona; 
segments spreading or reflexed. 
Stamens usually equalling the 
crown, filaments free or adnate 
to the perianth. Capsule cori- 
aceous. The name of this 
genus is of mytholovical origin. 
The xpecies and varieties are 
very numerous and somewhat 
difficult of discrimination. 
Mr. Baker’s review of the 
genus in the ‘ Gardeners’ 
Chronicle’ for 1869 being the 
most useful guide to the spe- 
cies and varieties we are ac- 
quainted with, we reproduce 
that in an abridged form. He 
arranges them under three 
divisions, according to the size 
Fig. 236, Leucoium estivum. (} nat. size.) of the crown, Vig 
I. Macntcoronit.t.—Crown as long or rather longer than the 
divisions of the pcrianth. 
There are ouly three well-marked specics belonging to this group, 
one of which is very rare in a wild state and hardly known in 
cultivation. They are distinguished as follows :— 
Tube inversely conical, varying from as long to twice as 
long as broad, with the stamens from the bottom: 
divisions of the perianth more or less ascending. 
