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July. tion; he defcribes the Daffodil of THzropurastus ( cérculo purpureo; and others in the fame Manner. 
~———- in very exprefs Terms; and adds, regarding the 
- Colour of the Flower, that the outer Part or Pe- 
tals are white, and the inner Part.or Nectarium 
which they called, and which the Gardener full 
calls, its Cup, was either purple or yellow. 
Thus we fee the whole explained. 
 firlt Greeks gave the Name Narciffus to the pur- 
ple cup’d Daffodil: in after Time the Writers of 
The 
Linnjus, who rejects. the Article of Colour 
from fpecific Names, calls it, Narcifjus fpatha 
unifiora, neckarii limbo rotato, breviffimo : Single- 
flowered Narciffus, with the Edge of the Nectarium 
rotated and fhort. : 
The Root is a roundifh Bulb, hung at the 
. Bafe with many long and conliderable Fibres. 
_ The Leaves are long; moderately broad, and 
the fame Nation extended the Term to the yellow | of a pale but not unpleafing green. 
cup’d Kind; and Ovip made an ill Choice between 
them. He has not fixed upon the original or 
purple cup’d Narciffus, here defcribed, but on the 
yellow centred one, which we have mentioned in 
a former Number. | 
- Privy, whom it would feem Omiffion not to 
quote on this Occafion, collected varioufly ; but 
what he has faid f{trengthens (if Copyifts can give 
Strength to the Determinations founded upon the 
Words of their Originals) what we have efta- 
blithed of the true and early known Narciffus; 
he mentions indeed one with an_ herbaceous 
Cup; but this is a fecond and inferior Kind: 
the true original Narciffus, he fays, had a white 
Elower with a purple Cup; and in his inarti- 
ficial Way he calls it a purple Lilly. 
‘This elegant white Daffodil with the {mall pur- 
ple Cup, is therefore the Original firft known, and 
_ fo much celebrated Narciffus of the antient Greek 
Philofophers and Poets; the Theme of fo much 
Praife, and Source of fo many Fables; whofe 
Beauty they deduced in their wild Way, from. 
the Metamorphofis of a celebrated Youth of the 
fame Name; which their Bucolift praifes in his 
elegant Simplicity for Elegance and Fragrance ; 
and which the Tragic SopHoc.es feeds from the 
Dew of Heaven, the 
O. xarrsboorus YAOuIT TOS = = = 
Owrru do oupavioss Ur AVVAS» 
They are flight Criticks who would cavil about 
the Time of our Plants flowering and theirs; 
which they fay opens its elegant Bloom after the 
‘‘ifing of ArGurus; that is, in September. 
The Stalk is naked, hollow, flatted a little, 
and edged; and at its Top fupports a fingle and 
very elegant Flower. This naturally droops a 
little, and is formed, as the other Daffodils, of 
fix Petals, with a NeCtarium of a rounded F orm, 
fhort; and waved at the Edge. 
_ The Petals are Snow-white; but in the Centre. 
of the Flower there is an elegant Crown of red, 
with a fringed Edge; beneath this is a white, 
and beneath that again a yellow Circle. 
a very elegant Difpofition of the Colouring, and 
added to this, the Fragrance of the Flower could 
not fail to recommend it to all the Attention it 
fhared of old, and will we hope ftill have from the 
judicious Gardener. | 
The Conftruction of the Flower is the fame 
as in other Daffodils which we have defcribed 
before; and its fix Filaments and fingle Style re- 
fer it plainly to the Hexandyia, the fixth Clafs of 
Linn us, and to its firft Section the Monogynia. . 
Culture of this DaFropt. 
We need not repeat for the Culture of this 
Species what we have at large delivered of the 
other Kinds. _ Its Management mutt be the fame, 
only that there fhould be an Addition of Marle 
to the Compoft: if that cannot be had, a Mix- 
ture of Pond-Mud and Cow-Dung mult be ufed 
in its Place; and when this has been expofed 
to the Winter’s Frofts, it muft be added to the 
reft | 
The Seeds muft be faved from thofe Plants 
This is 
‘son and others, Serotina. 
of the Daffodils we know is later. 
: } which have the red Circle fineft in the Flower, 
The Daffodil we defcribe here is later than moft 
others, and is even called thence, by our Parxin- 
have been produced from. fuch original Sowing. 
In Greece the Seafon P 5 wing 
Thus the Flower will attain its greateft Perfection ; 
and if fome of the Roots .be annually planted 
Tournerort, of all Men, is the beft Au- Jater than the others, and in a Place not much 
thority on this Head; and he, unknowing or 
unthinking of this Cavil, tells us he gathered on 
the Banks of the Granicus, and about Ephefus, |, 
Daffodils in December. - fa 
This purple-bofom’d Kind, fo early celebrated, 
the later Authors name from the Colouring of 
this inner Part. Doponaus calls it Narciffus 
medio purpureus; C, Bavnine, Narciffus albus 
and the Central Purple far fpread 
into the Flower. | I 
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