480 



AMARYLLfDEA: 



stamens 6, alternately shorter, with versatile anthers. (Named 

 after Narcissus, a youth said in Greek mythology to have been 

 changed into a flower.) 



i, N. Pseudo-narcissus (Common Daffodil, Lent Lily). — A 

 beautiful and favourite flower, with glaucous, blunt, nearly flat 

 leaves ; a hollow, glaucous peduncle less than a foot high, bearing 



galanthus nivAlis {Snowdrop). 



leuc6jum MSrtvim (Summer Snmvflakc). 



one flower, the long, bell-shaped, deep golden coronet of which is 

 nearly as long as the pale yellow perianth-leaves, and is notched 

 and curled at its margin. — Woods and pastures; frequent. — Fl. 

 March, April. Perennial. 



* Several other species of Narcissus, such as N. biflorus, with a 

 2-flowered scape, and N. poeticus, the Pheasant's-eye Daffodil, with 

 a spreading, white perianth, and small, yellow, cup-shaped, red^ 



