HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Narcissus. 419 
About a foot high. Leaves three quarters of an inch broad, strap-shaped, 
keeled at the base, as long as the stalk. Flowers white, streaked, with 
a green blotch near the point of each petal. ( Root bulbous. Leaves 
many. Flowers pendulous. Anthers blunt, with two little cavities. 
Capsule elliptical, three-celled. Seeds globular, large, black. E.) 
Summer Snowflake. We are indebted to Mr. Curtis for this elegant 
addition to the British Flora. He discovered it about half a mile below 
Greenwich, by the side of the Thames ; it has also, he says, been found 
on the opposite shore in the Isle of Dogs. In a small island, in the river 
about three miles south of Kendal, on the dam of the gunpowder mill. 
Mr. Gough. (In pastures at Little Stonham, Suffolk. Mrs. Cobbold. 
Near Reading. Mr. Murray. FI. Brit. In a moist meadow at Upton, 
Bucks, remembered for fifty-years by the present tenant of the farm ; 
also in a peat-field near Dorney. Mr. Gotobed, in Bot. Guide. In Ren- 
noldson's Mill Dam, near Heaton, Northumberland. Mr. Winch. In 
great abundance in a meadow bordering Thames Erith, Kent. FI. Lond. 
Near Wooking, Surry. Salisbury. E.) P. May.* 
NARCIS'SUS.f Bloss. superior, of six equal petals, attached 
to a bell-shaped nectary , which conceals the stamens. 
N. poet'icus. Sheath one-flowered: nectary wheel-shaped, very short, 
membranous, finely scolloped: (leaves bluntly keeled: edges 
reflexed. E.) 
E. Bot. 275—Kniph. 7, t' e 1st Jig. — Dod. 223 . 1 . 
(Bloss. large and fragrant. Leaves twelve to eighteen inches long, nearly 
erect, half an inch wide. Stem about as tall as the leaves, straight, hol¬ 
low, two-edged. Bractea brown and husky. Bulb egg-shaped, with a 
dark brown skin. E.) Leaves rounded on the keel, reflexed at the edge. 
Flower solitary, pure white; nectary bordered with crimson. E. Bot. 
(White One-flowered Daffodil. Poetic Narcissus. E.) Sandy 
heathy places. On a rabbit warren at Shorne, between Gravesend and 
Rochester. At Wood-Bastwick, and other parts of Norfolk. Back of 
Mount Pleasant, Tunbridge Wells. Mr. J. Woods, jun., in Bot. Guide. 
Near Haugham, Kent. Rev. J. Lyon ditto. Field at Cove, Suffolk. Mr. 
W. Jacobson. E.) P. May.J 
* (Mr. Salisbury lias observed its noxious herbage so abundant as to overpower the grass 
in Spring ; but no kind of cattle will eat it. The plant is easily propagated, and well 
adapted to enliven the borders of shrubberies. E.) 
+ (According to Ovid, derived its name from the contumacious and self-enamoured 
Narcissus, who was changed into this flower; but Plutarch imagines it to be so called 
from vxpxri (quasi narcosis , signifying a privation of sense, as in palsy); the stupor or 
narcotic effect which it produces on the nerves of those who inhale the odour. E.) 
$ (The celebrated Narcissus of the Greek and Roman poets, which they so greatly extol 
for its beauty and fragrance, appears to have been attractive even to the Gods ; Proserpine 
being occupied during her abode in Sicily, and when carried away by Pluto, in gathering, 
on the luxuriant plains of Enna, 
-“ Daffodils , 
That come before the swallow dares, and take 
The winds of March with beauty;” 
though from the early season above described, our English bard might possibly refer to the 
more common species. A handsome double variety is sometimes found in gardens; as also 
others with purple or yellow-cupped flowers. E.) 
