Daffo&Hs . 1 
(1) When Daffodils begin to peer, 
With heigh ! the doxy o’er the dale, 
Why, then comes in the sweet o’ the year. 
Winter s Tale, iv. 3, I. 
(2) Daffodils 
That come before the swallow dares, and take 
The winds of March with beauty.— Ibid., iv. 4, 118. 
(3) With chaplets on their heads of Daffodillies. 
Two Noble Kinsmen, iv. 1, 94. 
See also Narcissus. 
F all English plants there have been none in 
such constant favour as the Daffodil, whether 
known by its classical name of Narcissus, or by 
its more popular names of Daffodil, or Daffa¬ 
downdilly, and Jonquil. The name of Narcissus 
it gets from being supposed to be the same as 
the plant so named by the Greeks first and the Romans after¬ 
wards. It is a question whether the plants are the same, and 
I believe most authors think they are not; but I have never 
been able to see very good reasons for their doubts. The 
name Jonquil comes corrupted through the French, from junci- 
folius or “rush-leaf,” and is properly restricted to those 
1 This account of the Daffodil, and the accounts of some other flowers, 
I have taken from a paper by myself on the common English names of 
plants read to the Bath Field Club in 1870, and published in the “ Trans¬ 
actions” of the Club, and afterwards privately printed.—H. N. E, 
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