Narcissus.^ xci. amaryllidaceae. 
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thers. E. B. t. 491. — 8. stigma considerably longer than the 
anthers. C. speciosus Hook. {M. Bieb, ?, not Reich.) : E. B. S. 
t. 2752. 
Meadows. — a. Between Nottingham Castle and the Trent; near 
the Railway Station, Derby. — j8. Meadows near Warwick, War- 
rington, and about Halifax. y.. 9, 10. — This is the only species 
of the genus which can have any claim to be considered indigenous ; 
but this we are not disposed to concede even to it. 
Ord. XCI. AMARYLLIDACE2E R. Brown. 
Limb of the perianth coloured, 6-partite or 6-cleft. Stamens 
6, inserted at the bottom of the segments, sometimes united by 
a membrane. Anthers opening inwards. Ovary 3-celled ; the 
cells many-seeded, or in those whose fruit is fleshy, 1 — 2-seeded. 
Style 1. Stigma 3-lobed. Fruit capsular: either dry with 3 
valves bearing the dissepiments in the middle, 3 cells and many 
seeds; or fleshy with 1 — 3 seeds. Integument of the seed not 
crustaceous. Embryo straight, in the axis of a fleshy albumen , 
orthotropal. Radicle next the hilum. — Flowers large , generally 
of a bright colour. Leaves fleshy, indistinctly nerved , all radical. 
Roots bulbous. 
1. Narcissus. Perianth tubular at the base, with a 6-partite limb, and 
a campanulate crown or nectary. 
2. Galanthus. Perianth 6-partite, campanulate, 3 outer sepals spread- 
ing, 3 inner smaller, erect, emarginate ; crown none. 
3. Leucojum. Perianth 6-partite, campanulate, sepals all equal and a 
little thickened at the point ; crown none. 
1. Narcissus Linn. Narcissus. Daffodil. 
Perianth coloured, tubular at the base, with a spreading 
6-partite limb , and a campanulate or cup-shaped crown or nec- 
tary , within which are the stamens. Anthers dehiscing longitu- 
dinally. Flowers from a spatha. — Named from vapKt], stupor; 
in allusion to the powerful and injurious sinell of the flowers. 
More immediately derivable from the youth Narcissus, who is 
fabled to have been changed into this plant. An inhabitant 
sometimes of watery places, by the banks of streams. 
1. N. Pseudo-narcissus L. ( common D.) ; spatha single- 
flowered, nectary campanulate erect crisped at the margin ob- 
soletely 6-cleft, as long as the ovate segments of the perianth. 
E. B. t. 17. 
Moist woods and thickets. Rare in Scotland ; about Culross and 
Dunoon, but scarcely indigenous. Near Templeogue, Ireland. If. 
3, 4. — Flowers large, yellow. 
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