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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
GENUS II. 
DAFFODIL L. 
N J R C I S S U S. 
THE flower is formed of a long, tubular body, and fix petals. This tubular part is by common 
writers called the cup of the Hower, but is its neftarium ; and the petals are oblong, and are 
inferred into it above the bafe. The feed veflel is roundilh, but marked with three ridges ; and the 
fcabbard enclofing the flowers before they open, is oblong and flatted. 
Linnreus places this among the hexandria momgynia ; the threads being and the ftyle fmgle in 
the flower. 
DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
I. Wild Englilh Dalfodill. 
Narcijfus fylvepit pallidus. 
The root is fmall, and roundilh. 
The leaves are narrow and long, and of a ftrong 
green. 
The ftalk is upright, and a foot high ; and on 
its top ftands a hngle flower. This is large and 
yellow : the edge of the neftarium or tubular part 
is waved, and the petals are paler than this 
part. 
We have it frequent wild in the north of Eng- 
land in damp paftures, flowering in April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Narcijfus fylveftris faHidus 
calyn luleo. Others, Pfelide-nardfus An^lkus. 
2. Pale Daffodill, called Primrofe-Peerlefs. 
Narcijfus medio hlcus vulgaris. 
The root is fmall, and roundilh. 
The leaves are long, and fomewhat broad, 
ftriated, and of a pale green. 
The ftalk is flatted, and a foot high. 
The flowers are very beautiful. 
The petals are large, and of an extreme pale 
yellowifh, little more than we call cream-colour ; 
and the neftarium is fmall and yellow. 
We have it wild in the north of England, and 
it is frequent in gardens. 
C. Bauhine calls it Narcijfus palHdus medio lu- 
leo. Others, Narcijfus medio lutcus. 
DIVISION II. FOREIGN SPECIES. 
Hulli leaved Daffodill, called Junquille. 
Narcijfus juncifolius vulgaris. 
The root is fmall, and roundifli. 
The leaves are long, flender, hollow, rounded, 
and of a deep green. 
The ftalk rifes in the midft ; and is flender, 
and a toot high. 
The flowers are of a beautiful pale yellow, and ' 
very fweet. 
It is a native of the Eaft, but is kept every where " 
in gardens, wher* culture raifcs many varieties 
of it. . 
C, Bauhine calltit Narcijfus Juncifolius ; a name 
copied by others. 
GENUS III. 
STAR OF BETHLEHEM. 
ORNITHOGJLUM. 
THE flower is compofed of fix petals, which remain after they have loft their colour. They 
have no cup. The feed- veflel is roimdiOi, but haa three ridges j and there are a kind of films 
at the bafe of all the footftalks of the flowers. 
Linnaeus places this, with many other of the balbous plants, among x.hz hexandria mono^nia. 
DIVISION I. 
BRITISH SPECIES. 
I. Wild, fpiked Star of Bethlehem. 
Ornithogalum angujlifolium fpicatum pre ex alho 
virenle. 
'i he root is round, large, and white. 
The leaves are long, narrow, and of a pale 
green. 
The ftalk is round, upright, and two feet high. 
The flowers fl-aiid in a long fpike at the top, 
and are of a grecnifh white. 
It is found wild in our weftern counties, and 
flowers in April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ornithogalum angnftifoliim 
majus, 
2. Common Star of Bethlehem. ' 
Ornithogalmn vulgarc. 
The root is large, round, and white. 
The leaves are numerous, very narrow, long, 
and of a dark green. 
The ftalk is round, upright, and eight inches 
high. 
The fiowers grow in a kind of umbel, not a 
J fpikej 
