420 HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Narcissus, 
N. bi'florus. Sheath two-flowered, nectary wheel-shaped, very 
short, membranous, finely scolloped: leaves acute on the keel, 
the edges inflexed. 
E. Bot. 276— J. B. ii. 604. 1— Lob. Ic. 114. 1— JDod. 223. 2— Clus. i. 156— 
Ger. 110. 6. 
{Bulb egg-shaped. E.) Flowers mostly two, sometimes one, and seldom 
more than three on a stalk, larger than any others that bear many flowers 
upon a stalk, of a sweet, but sickly scent. Blossom pale whitish cream- 
colour. Nectary pale yellow ; Park, edged with white, crenate. {Flowers 
smaller than those of the preceding: with which it was confounded by 
Haller and Hudson. E.) 
Pale Daffodil. (Primrose Peerless. Welsh: Gylfinog deuflodeuog. 
E.) Meadows and hedges, but rather rare. Fields and sides of woods 
in the west of England. Gerard. And at a distance from any house. 
Ray. Near Hornsey Church. Sherard, in R. Syn. At Bellow Hill, near 
Whitchurch, Cheshire. Mr. Vernon. Several places near Harefield. 
Blackstone, 58. Near Halifax. Mr. Wood. (About Tunbridge Wells. 
Banks of the river Wharf, at Thorpe Arch, in plenty. Mr. Knowlton, in 
Bot. Guide. Meadows near Ripton. Mr. Brunton. In a field on the 
north side of the two mile-stone from Exeter to Starcross. Rev. H. T. 
Ellicombe. In the parish of Llangadwaladr, and on Pant Howel demesne, 
Anglesey. W elsh Bot. Common in meadows about Dublin. Mr. De Luc. 
Sm. In fields near Yardly-wood pool, Worcestershire, together with 
N. Pseudo-Narcissus. E.) P. May. 
N. pseudo-narcis'sus. Sheath one-flowered: nectary bell-shaped, 
upright, curled, as long as the egg-shaped petals. 
E. Bot. 17— Tourn. 185. H. — Dod. 227. 1— Lob. Obs. 61. 1— Ger. Em. 133. 
2—Pet. 67. 9—Swert. i. 21. 3— J. B. ii. 592. 2—Trag. 757— Ger. 115. 2. 
{Bulb nearly globular, blackish. Leaves rather glaucous, bluntly keeled, 
rather flat at the edge. Flower pendulous, large, of an unpleasant scent. 
Germen tri-sulcate. FI. Brit. E.) Stalk two-edged, (eight to ten inches 
high. E.) Petals egg-spear-shaped, straw-coloured. Nectary through¬ 
out of a full yellow; the margin a little plaited and snipt. 
Common Daffodil. (Welsh: Gylfinog cyffredin ; Croeso gwanwyn. E.) 
Woods, meadows, sides of hedges, and in orchards. In woods near Erith, 
Kent. Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. Hanley Castle, Worcestershire. Mr. 
Ballard. (At Bank Hall, near Liverpool. Dr. Bostock. Pexton Wood, 
Huntingdonshire. Mr. Woodward. Near Pierce Bridge, Durham. Mr. 
Winch. Studley and Sambourne, Warwickshire, in great plenty. Pur- 
ton. Llanedwan, Anglesey, Welsh Bot. Meadows in the neighbour¬ 
hood of Culross. Maughan, in Hook. Scot. Covers almost a whole field 
beyond Erdington, on the road from Birmingham to Sutton. Abundant 
in fields near Yardley-wood pool, Worcestershire. Madely, Shropshire. 
E.) P- March—May.* 
* (This species and its congeners are most welcome Spring flowers, being hardy and of 
easy culture, especially the present kind (both double and single), which will without 
trouble enliven with its gay clusters the garden, the shrubbery, and the grass plat, even 
under trees. 
“ When early Primroses appear, 
And vales are deck’d with Daffodils , 
I hail the new reviving year, 
And soothing hope my bosom fills.” 
