GANYME'DES PULCHEL'LUS. 
PRETTY GAXYMEDES. 
Class . Order. 
HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
AMARYLLIDACE JE. 
Native of 1 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
Spain. 
1 foot. 
3Iar., April. 
Perennial. 
before 1810. 
No. 1128. 
The present generic name, which has been 
adopted by modern authors, is a classical one of 
the late Mr. Haworth, an enthusiastic cultivator 
of bulbs and succulent plants, and a man of highly 
poetic mind. By the fabulists of old, Ganymedes 
was represented as the cup-bearer of the gods, in 
place of Hebe ; hence the appropriateness of the 
name to this group of plants, as all of them bear 
large cups Mr. Haworth separated this genus 
from Narcissus, from its reflexed perianthium; three 
stamens being inserted in the mouth of the tube, 
and three far down ; and its ovarium having two 
septums, with four rows of seeds in each cell, 
others having but two rows of seeds in each cell, 
We mention this to explain, in some degree, the 
characters on which a division of the genus Nar- 
cissus was adopted. 
This is a plant of delicate ajrpearance, and wor- 
thy of cultivation by all who admire the old family 
of Narcissus ; and there is scarcely one of more 
value, for the embellishment of our gardens in the 
spring, nor any requiring less care at our hands. 
It may be sufficiently increased by offsets. 
