NOMENCLATURE — CLASSIFICATION 99 



sions stands to-day. These are respectively 

 magni-coronati, medio-coronati, and parvi- 

 coronati, wittily interpreted into "long-nosed" 

 "short-nosed" and "snub-nosed," now com- 

 monly spoken of as trumpet, cup and saucer. 



(Editor's Note: These three popular terras are intro- 

 duced as being entirely logical and descriptive. The word 

 "crown"' that has sometimes been used to indicate the en- 

 tire medio-coronati sub-division, is inadequate since It is 

 a translation of part of the Latin designation of all three 

 sub-divisions.) 



Baker's arrangement with a few modifica- 

 tions received official approval at the Daffo- 

 dil Conference of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society held in London in 1884. The matter 

 of future nomenclature was solved by the 

 adoption of the following resolution : 



RESOLVED : "That in the opinion of this conference, uni- 

 formity of nomenclature is most desirable, and that 

 garden varieties of narcissus, vphether known hybrids 

 or natural seedlings, should be named or numbered 

 in the manner adopted by florists and not in the 

 manner adopted by botanists." 



Under this ruling all recent varieties are 

 given English names, the Latin titles being 

 retained for the old species, sub-species and 

 wild hybrids. 



To a very great degree, the botanical sub- 

 divisions of the family agree with the garden 



