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It is one of thofe elegant Varieties produc’d 
from the common Exgli/b Daffodil ; but the natu- 
ral Characteriftic of that Plant, its long and 
large Nectarium, is fo obliterated. under this 
State, that were there not other certain Cha- 
~racters in the Form of the Leaves and Produétion 
of the Flower, it would be we? to refer it to fome 
other Kind. ; 
The Student knows the F lower of every Daf- 
fodil is compos’d of fix Petals and a Ne¢tarium, 
which Gardeners call the Cup. This fingular 
Part is fhort in fome,; and Wheel- fafhion’d ; in 
others, long, deep, and very large. 
Tis thus in the common Narciffus in its ‘wild 
State ; ; and we have feen how the Gardener changes 
its Appearance. ~ 
_ broad, obtufe, and generally brown at the End; | of the true double Lemon Narciffus. 
fometimes alfo ting’d with that Colour along the | 
_dulations fo many Indentings ; 
becomes fring’d and ragged in a wild Variety of 
Originally it is only a little wav’d about the 
Edge: the firft Effects of, Culture make the Un- 
from this State it 
Forms; and, as the extreme Force of Culture in 
the prefent Inftance, it is cut deeply into a Mul- | 
titude of Segments, refembling fo many Petals. 
Thefe mix themfelves with .the proper Petals, 
from which they are diftinguifh’d only by being a — 
little narrower ; and na together with them a 
~-vaft and very’ elegant Flower. | 
In this State many of thofe earlier Botanifts, 
who did not diftinguifh between the Characters of 
Varieties and Species, have nam’d it as an origi- 
nal and feparate Plant. | 
Dovon aus calls it P/eudo- Nareiffus calyce pleno 
multiplict colore luteo,; and others have fo nam’d it 
after him. Tee 
The Linnaan Botany difclaims diftinctive. 
Names for the Varieties of Flowers; and we have 
already told the Student, the original Plant is the 
common Narciffus, this is call’d by that Author 
Narciffus fpatha uniflora netiarii limbo campanulato 
ereéto petalo equale. ‘The very Characters on which 
this Title is founded are loft in the. a Con- | 
dition of the Flower.. 
‘The Root is a Bulb, ek oval in Form, 
full of .a flimy whitith Juice, and furnifhed at the 
Bafe with many Fibres. | 
The Leaves are numerous, long, moderately 
Edges, and elfewhere of a pale green. 
: from Accidents 
their keeping wholly | to that Colour. 
Its Top fupports, as well as it is able, one vatt 
Flower; the Weight is more than can. be car- 
ryd ereat by that ign Neck, and it eek, a 
little. 
Its Conftruction we have deferib’ d already : 
Colour is a delicate Lemon yellow ; ; and the fem 
ments are long, obtufe, wav'd at the F ecaes, 
and difpos’d in a wild and irregular Manner, not 
as in many double Flowers, in a Number of Se- 
The Smell is flight, but not agreeable. 
res. 
The Stru@ture of the Narciffus F lower we have 
defcrib’d in a preceding Number; ‘and the Stu-. 
dent knows ’tis not in thefe double Kinds. the 
Parts of Impregnation are to be fearch’d, or 
Characters of the Clafs to be found. 
With regard to the Variations feen in this State 
of Culture, they principally 
regard the Colour. 
ment will extend itfelf down the Sides of the 
Segments; and they are in other Cafes Orange- 
colour’d throughout. 
This however is not pleafing, nor indeed is any 
Variation from the true Lemon yellow fo well as 
As the ge- 
neral Tinét is thus in fome Flowers deeper, it 
| will be in others paler, than even this Lemon 
or ftrawey Hue, but in this Cafe it is faint and 
| lifelefs._ 
Culture of this Darrovit. 
Tho’ we know the Stock from ‘whence this 
Flower is deriv’d, it is one of thofe Kinds not 
readily to be obtain’d from Seed. The ufual. 
‘Way of propagating it is by Off-fets from the — 
Roots ; and thefe are to be treated as we. have di- 
rected for the other Kinds, 
But tho’ it is not eafy to raife it from the 
common Narciffus Seed, yet the Gardener who 
follows our general. Inftruétions of fowing the 
Seeds of a good Plant in that Species, and re- 
fowing the Seeds of the beft Flowers rais’d from 
thofe, will not fail, amidft the Varieties he thall 
produce from thefe feveral Proceedings, to fee fome 
Thefe will be 
of various Degrees in Colour, and even the 
meaneft full of Beauty. 
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The Segments will be in 
fome Flowers ting’d at the Tips, with an Orange 
Colour, or a redift Hue; fometimes this Orna- 
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The Stalk is flatted and ede’d, ftriated, of a April. 
| pale green, fimple, and a Foot ‘high. 
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