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NARCl'SSUS* *. 
'■Linnean Class and Order. HEXA'NDRiAf, Monogy'nia +. 
Natural Order. Amarylli'deas§, Dr. R. Brown . — Lind. Syn. 
p. 264. ; Introd. to Nat. Syst. p. 259. ; Loud, llort. Brit. p. 538. — 
Narcisse/e, Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 407. — Narcissi, Sect. 2. Juss. 
Gen. PI. p. 54.— Sm. Gr. of Bot. p. 75. 
Gen. Char. Calyx none. Corolla ( Pcridnthium || ) supe- 
rior, funnel-shaped ; limb in 6 egg-shaped, pointed, flat seg- 
ments ; orifice of the tube with a bell-shaped, or cup-shaped crown 
or nectary. Filaments 6 (fig. 1.), awl-shaped, inserted into the 
tube of the corolla, and concealed within the nectary. Anthers 
strap-shaped, incumbent (turned inwards), bursting along their 
outer edges. German (fig. 2.) inferior, roundish, with 3 blunt 
angles. Style (fig. 2.) slender, triangular, longer than the stamens. 
Stigma in 3 concave blunt segments. Capsule (fig. 3.) roundish, 
bluntly 3-angled, of 3 cells, and 3 valves, with central partitions 
(fig. 4). Seeds several, globose. 
Distinguished from other Genera of the same class and order by 
the superior, tubular corolla or perianthium, with a 6-parted limb, 
and a bell-shaped or cup-shaped crown or nectary, which conceals 
the stamens. 
Monocotyledonous plants , with a coated bulbous root, several 
radical leaves growing in 2 opposite ranks, which are strap-shaped, 
somewhat succulent (juicy), smooth ; and either flattish, or semi- 
cylindrical and tubular. Stalk ( scape J from the centre of the 
bulb, bearing one or many flowers, from a terminal, membranous, 
simple, permanent, sheathing hractea. Flowers yellowish, or 
whitish, or partaking of both colours. 
Three species British. 
NARCl'SSUS PSEUDO-NARCl'SSUS. Common Daffodil. 
Spec. Char. Sheath 1-flowered. Crown or nectary bell- 
shaped, upright, crisped at the margin, obsoletely 6-cleft, as long 
as the egg-shaped segments of the corolla. 
Eng. Bot. t. 17. — Lion. Sp. PI. p. 414.— Iluds. FI. Angl. (2nd ed.)p.l41. — 
Stn. FI. Bril. v. i. p. 355. Eng. FI. v. ii. p 132. — With. (7th ed.) v. ii. p. 
420. — Lindl. Syn. p. 265. — Hook. Brit. FI. p. 152. — Sibth. FI. Oxon. p. 109.— 
— Abbot’s FI. Bed!’, p. 73. — Haworth, in Linn. Soc. Tr. vol. v. p. 243. — Purt. 
Midi. FI. v. i. p. 168. — Itelh. FI. Cantab. (3rded.) p 137. — Hook. FI. Scot. p. 
100. — Grev. FI. Edin. p. 75. — FI. Devon, pp. 57 & 130. — Johnston’s FI. of Ber- 
wick, v. ii. p. 291. — W alk.;Fl. of Oxf. p. 91.— Curt. Brit. Enlotn. v. ii. t. 98 1! . — 
Fig. 1. The 6 Stamens, attached to the base of the Nectary. — Fig. 2. Germen, 
Style, and Stigma. — Fig. 3. Capsule. — Fig. 4. A transverse section of the same, 
showing the 3 dissepiments, one from the middle of each valve. 
* From narce, Gr. stupor ; in allusion to the, powerful and injurious smell 
of the flowers of some of the species. More immediately derivable from the 
youth Narcissus, who was fabled to be changed into this flower; an inha- 
bitant, sometimes, of watery places, by the banks of streams. Dr. Hooker. 
t See Galanthus nivalis, p. 33, n. f. $ See Hippiiris vulgaris, p.49, n. J. 
$ See Leucijum cestivum, p. 55. || See Galanthus nivalis, p. 33, n. t. 
IT British Entomology ; being illustrations and descriptions of the Genera of 
Insects, found in Great Britain and Ireland; containing Coloured Figures, from 
nature, of the most rare and beautiful species, and, in many instances, of the 
Plants upon which they aie found. By John Curtis, F. L. S. Loudon, 
1824 — 1834. Mr. Curtis has given such correct and very beautiful delineations 
