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75. Ajax. — Daffodil. Style thick, straight, subulate, three- 
furrowed, tripartible; filaments straight, clustering 
round the style, adhering to the lower part of the 
tube, growing into the back of the anther below 
the middle ; anthers erect, straight (the point rarely 
a little curved), linear, margins of the lobes bent back, 
meeting behind, and enveloping the filaments. Tube 
funnel-shaped, crown nearly cylindrical, longer than 
the tube, equal to or longer than the limb, which 
is conspicuous ; capsule sloping ; seed roundish, 
wrinkled, with a prominent wrinkled raphe and 
chalaza. 
1. Minor. — Var. 1. Princeps. N. minor. Linn. Cunei- 
folius. Haw. Scape internally filled up near to 
the top ; filaments adnate close to the base un- 
equally, see pi. 38. f. 32. ; style a quarter of an inch 
shorter than the cup ; limb semipatent, pale yel- 
low ; segments not imbricating ; tube half an inch 
long ; cup 6-lobed, crenate at the edge ; leaves 
glaucous. Native of the Pyrenees. Linnaeus (s. 2. 
ed.) describes minor with flowers nodding, three 
times smaller than Pseud. Nar. ; scape scarcely 
striated ; margin of the cup 6-lobed, undulate, 
crisp ; segments of the limb distinct at the base. 
Mr. Haworth, therefore, in separating the varieties, 
affixed the name minor to a wrong one, with the 
segments imbricating. 
Var. 2. Humilior. — Minor. Bot. Mag. 1. 6. Minimus, 
absque ratione. Haworth. Leaves closer to the 
ground, but before expansion touching it; segments 
imbricating. 
Var. 3. Cuneifolius. — Salisbury. PI. 39. f. 24. Spec. 
Herb. Banks. Segments of the limb not imbri- 
cating. 
Only one of the above is known to me, except the speci- 
mens in the Banks. Herb, to which the names are affixed by 
Mr. Salisbury ; but Mr. Haworth states that he was ac- 
quainted with the three, which he injudiciously distinguished 
as species, and two other varieties, one with leaves larger 
and more erect than minor, the other narrower. They are 
very hardy, and flower in March. 
Var. 5. Erectior. — Minor. Haw. This Mr. Haworth 
