WILD FLOWERS AS THEY GROW 



' THE DAFFODIL 



NARCISSUS PSEUDO-NARCISSUS 



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." 



Shakespeare. 



kAFFODILS that come before the swallow 



dares and deck the winds of March 



with beauty," are inseparably bound up in thought 



D 



a, b, section through corolla and its crown, c, d, stamens round ovary 

 and style, d, stigma, style, ovary (section showing seeds), t, section 

 through fruit. 



with the gladness of spring, with lengthening days, 



and the welcome return of the sun to power, 

 ex I 



