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SILVER AND Steep DAFFODIL. 
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The Leaves are numerous, long, narrow, ob: 
July. 4 Ee Ee Gar duties has been’ told on fe- | July 
oF --veral Occafions, that great Part of the tufe, and of a pale blueith or greyith: green, eee 
Pl. 44. ‘Variety of Daffodils -he fo much ad- The Stalk is upright, a Foot high, fomewhat: 
Fig. 1. mires, are feminal Changes from fome common “flatted, edged and hollow; and it’ bends at the 
_ Species; not. diftinét Kinds. This» is one of Top with the Weight of ‘one Flower. 
them: its Afpect is equally fingular and elegant ; 
but with all the Variation «of Shape and Colour 
This 
burfts from an oblong leafy” Scabbard, and is 
compofed of fix Petals, and a very long double 
in the Flower, the Eye of the attentive Botanift, 
will fee it is “nothing. more than the common 
wild Daffodil in an improved and varied State, 
as Plants are changed: by Culture.. 
The Writers on Flowers in general have named 
at: they call’ it, Narciffus grifeus calyce favo, and 
Nareciffus maximus grifeus calyce flavo: the great grey 
Daffodil witha «yellow Cup. 
-Linnzvus, who allows neither Difference of 
‘Colour, or Fullnefs of Petals, to conftitute {pe- 
cifick DiftinGtions, refers this to the common wild - 
Engli ifo Daffodil ;. and that Species he namies Nar- 
ciffus {patha uniflora neftarii limbo campanulato ereéfo 
petalo equa: one: flowered Narciffus with. the 
Verge of the Ne¢tarium, bell-fhaped, ftrait, and 
equal to the Petals. This Name is given to the 
fingle State of the Plant, in this. double Flower 
thofe Charaéters are in great part obliterated. 
The Root“is’roundith, compofed of nymerous 
‘Coats, and full of a vifcid Juice. , 
Numb. XLIV.. 
and large Cup. 
The Petals are of a very delicate fhining iene 
grey, and the Cup yellow. .° This ‘is the natural 
Colouring ;' but fometimes the yellow runs in - 
light Variegations among the grey, and often the 
grey in the fame Manner. fpreads itfelf | among the 
yellow :. either way the Colouring is sek 
fingular as well as pretty. ; 
The Cup which is very large, is doubled anil tdi. 
vided‘alfo in various Manners; fometimes the Body 
is entire, and’ fometimes the whole is‘¢ut and divided 
down’ to the Bottom: In either Cafe the Elower - 
is very beautiful: nor is it a flight Value it gains 
additionally, by the’ late Time of its flowering. 
In this double State the Characters which fhould | 
mark’ the Clafs and Place of the Plant ate obli- 
terated ; but in the fingle one, as in the othet - 
| Daffodils, there are fix Filaments and a fingle 
Style, fo that the Plant’ iS referred: to the Hexan . 
dria Monog ynia. : 
6 Q: Culture 
