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A COMPLEATOBRODY 
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3. FRINGED NARCISSUS. 
"This, tho’ far from the ‘moft elegant of the 
Nareiffus Kind, is valuable on Account , of the. 
Seafon ; : and, with right “Management, it, will 
annually rear its Head among the Snow in the fe- 
vereft Winter, and add to the {mall Number of 
Flowers at fuch Seafons. 
_ Our People call it the Winter. Daffodil, and 
the common Writers, Narciflus totus luteus medius, 
‘Its proper Name is Narciffus ‘fpatha unifiora netla- 
vii limbo campanulato, profunde fetto: Single-flow- 
erd Nar ciffus, with the Edge of the Neétarium 
broad, and cut into Segments. 
The Root is a fmall Bulb. . 
“The Leaves are very long, of moderate Breadth, 
3 2 and of a fine green. 
“The Stalk rifes in the Mid of omPe Ae is of 
a pale green, a Foot in Height, and tolerably 
: firm. On its Top ftands a “fingle Flower, fo 
“This rifes from within a 
heavy that it droops. 
_ plain oblong Scabbard, which, when it has per- 
form’d the. Office of fhielding the Bud, droops 
and withers. | 
The F lower is large, 
Beauty. le 
Its Colour is a very fine yellow ; and the Dif- 
- pofition of the Petals, and Edging of the Cup, 
give it a confiderable Degree of Elegance, 
_ The whole Flower confifts of a NeCtarium ond 
_ fix Petals. The Nectarium rifes hollow from its 
Bafe, and fpreads to the Rim ; and this, from its 
Shape refembling a Cup, is call’d the Cup « of the 
Flower ; a. very improper Term, becaufe it con- 
_ founds this Part with: the Perianthium or proper 
Cup, i in which Flowers are plac’d; and the Office of 
pees is fupply’d by the Scabbard in this Inftance. 
~ The Petals are fix in Number, and they are in- 
E es into the Nettarium ¢ on the Outfide, a little 
_ above tema, ON A es ee 
The Neétarium in this Species j 1S Wee cestts di- 
vided at its Edge into twélve Segments, which. 
are: © jagged at their Sites el of a pointed 
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his Plant, tho’ fuperior to moft we. cultivate, 1} 
is little known in our Gardens, *Tis ftrange we- 
have not introduc’d it more frequent there, fince 
we familiarly raife many from the fame Quarter of 
the World: but this is not the only Negleét. of 
which we may complain ; ; too many of the late 
Writers on Botany have pafs’d it over unnotic’d; 
~ and thofe who have nam’d the Plant, have fo | | 
* imperfeatly explain’d its Structure, that there re- 
quires a par ticular: Confideration for the Generical | 
Character. “hee pots | 
“The Cup is a "permanent Spatha, naturally 
burfting i into three | narrow Parts. ae 
-. The Torelle. is form’d of fix Petals, irregular 
There are | 
Form: 
, tonmintl ‘by opening a Flower; 
- our wortt Seafons, 
and not ae its 
thefe the Luxuriance of Culture will di- 
vide more, deeply, in a curl’d Manner, and edge 
the Rim of this Part with a perfect Fri ringe. 
The Seed- veffel is roundifh, but ridge. and, 
the Seeds are. numerous and Toundifh, with an 
- Appendage. . 
The Clafs of this Plant will be immediately de- 
fix Filaments 
and a fingle Style will be found in it; and the 
Student who has thus far purfu’d the Courfe of 
the Science, will find no Difficulty to determine 
that it belongs to the Hexandria Monogynia, the. 
-fixth Clafs and firft Section. 
Culture of this Narcissus. 
This is one of the hardy Daffodils that ftand 
-and flower with little Care 
. from the Gardener. - | 
It may be rais’d from Seeds, but that is a te- 
dious Method; for, according to the common 
Practice, it will be five Years before the Seedlings 
flower ; and, with the beft Methods I have feen 
try’d, they cannot be brought to it in lefs. than 
oo eee , 
The. Method we fall comiend for this Kind 
is therefore by Off-fets, which the Plant produces 
in a great Abundance, and which fhould be 
planted in a Bed of frefh Pafture Earth, with a 
very little Cow-dung well mix’d among it; and 
never taken out of the Ground,. except to part the 
Of- fets from them, once in three Years. 
The Method of raifing Narciflus’. s from Seed 
_we fhall deliver under a fico ing Head, fpeak- 
ing of fome of the finer Kinds ; of to that Place 
-alfo we referve the Management of the Roots of 
fuch Species. . This which we intend fhall flower at 
the prefent Seafon, will fucceed the better for be- 
ing left abfolutely to Nature; and it requires no 
_ more Care than clearing the Bed from Weeds. 
_ three upper ones, and three lower: 
The three upper are broad, oval, and pointed, 
: and thefe form a kind of Hood. 
The three lower are long, narrow, and hang 
down, making an under Lip. The fix do not 
unite at, their Bafes. 
The Filaments are three; they are long,, flen- 
der, and terminated by oblong Antherz. 
_ The Piftil was wanting in the only Flower | 
“have had Opportunity to examine; nor have | 
ee feen the Seed-veffel. 
~Thefe Deficiencies in the Chara&ter mutt be {up- 
| ine by thofe who raife it, or who vifit Africa. 
The Struéture of the Flower abundantly di- 
ftinguithes it from all the hitherto eftablifh’d Genera, 
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