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ETYMOLOGIA. 
F Rom the Refcmblancc that this Plant bears, both to the Lilly 
and Daffodil, it is very properly exprefs’d by a Word com- 
pounded of the Names of thefe two Flowers, viz, % 
7^hq},ov NarciJJus & Lilium. 
It is like the Lilly in its Flowers, Seed Vcffels, and Seeds ; but 
differs from it in its Vagina membranaceaj which inclofes the great 
bunch of Flowers. This the Lilly has not. 
It agrees with the Daffodil in its Root, Leaves, and bare Stem 
or Flower-ftalk ; and alf'o in that the Leaves come out after the 
Stalk. Narcijfus Caulem prius deinde folia promit, as Cornutus cx- 
prefi'es it. 
Dr. Morifon introduces his Account of the Lilio-Narcif?, by a 
Remark not unlike this, which therefore it will not be improper 
here to Infert. ^ia fores producunt Liliorum infar, Capfulafque 
par iter eorundem Capfulis fimiles^ fe7ninaque it idem conformia Liliis i 
JLilii nomen in compoftione prafiximus^ quia denominatio omnis 
debet a nobiliore ^ ^otiore parte defumiy atqni fores ^ Capfula: 
feminales, ipfaque Hemina primatum in omni genere obtinebunt. 
Sed quandoquidem radices omnium harum infra defer ibendar urn 
*Plantarum (int perfelde bulbofCy ^ multis pelltculis fen tunicis Ma- 
jor ibus involventibus minor es preedit if y Narcijforum reliquortim more, 
non autem fquammof£ vel fquammat£y Liliorum proprie didorum 
modoy nos aptiore titulo Lilio Narcijfos defgnavimus, quoniam utri- 
ufque fcil Lilii ^ Narcijfjl Naturam participant y nomen (ic compof- 
tum obtinebunt. 
The reafon of its being called Narcijfus Japonicus and the Guernfey 
Lilly, we have feen under the laft Head, and Sarnia being the Latin 
Name ufed by Antoninus and other Roman Writers, to exprefs the 
laft of thefe Iflands, 1 have term'd this Plant Lilium Sarnienfcy it being 
of more confequence to us to know that it grows naturally in Guern- 
fey y than that it came originally from Japan. 
RADIX. 
