NARCISSAL PLANTS. - 803 
central veins correspond with the outer edge. The cauline leaves 
are alternate and sheathing. The flowers form a sort of composite 
cluster, which are of great volume, and exhale a most agreeable 
odour. 
The genera are numerous, inhabiting all the temperate parts of 
Fig. 358.—Iris Germanica. 
S ” World; the Iris and Crocus representing the order in the 
_“rthern, as the brilliant Gladioles and Ixias do in the southern 
