darker green. Flowers elegantly nodding, but never drooping.
Perianthium leaflets obovate, or oblongly obovate, or
somewhat elliptic, white, yellow at the base on the outside,
(interior ones smallest, as in all others, and less mucronu-
late,) at first spreading, nearly horizontal, flat, or variously
twisted a little, and slightly imbricated at the base, afterwards
somewhat reflexed, and variously bent and twisted,
a little longer than the tube, which is prismatic, pale green,
and slender. Crown yellow, thick, firm, entire at the rim,
or occasionally cracked with one somewhat regular fissure,
a little broader than long. Stamens 6, placed in 2 different
situations, and with the pollen, the same colour as the crown:
3 interior ones inserted considerably below the mouth, and
the anthers included; the 3 others placed at the end of the
tube, and the anthers protruded. Style slender, white, equal
with the crown. Stigma 3-parted, the segments small, flat,
spreadmg, somewhat rounded, white.
T h e o r i g i n o f t h e d o u b l e a n d s e m i - d o u b l e v a r i e t i e s o f t h e C y p r u s N a r c
i s s u s h a y i n g a l w a y s a p p e a r e d d o u b t f u l , a n d h a v i n g b e e n g e n e r a l l y s u p p o s e d
t o b e v a r i e t i e s o f t h e I t a l i a n N a r c i s s u s , w a s f i r s t s u s p e c t e d b y M r . H a w o r t h
t o b e a d i f f e r e n t a n d d i s t i n c t s p e c i e s , a s m e n t i o n e d i n a p a p e r b y h i m , i n t h e
P h i l o s o p h i c a l M a g a z i n e a n d A n n a l s , M a y 1 , 1 8 3 0 , w h e r e h e p r o p o s e d f o r
i t t h e n a m e o f Cypri. T h i s l a s t S p r i n g , w e w e r e l u c k y e n o u g h t o f i n d a
p l a n t o f t h e s i n g l e o n e i n f l o w e r , a t t h e N u r s e r y o f M r . C o l v i l l , i n t h e K i n g ^ s
l i o a d , C h e l s e a , w h e r e w e h a p p e n e d t o s e e i t g r o w i n g a m o n g s t s o m e d o u b l e
o n e s , a n d i m m e d i a t e l y r e c o g n i z e d i t t o b e t h e o r i g i n o f t h e m , i n a p e r f e c t
s i n g l e s t a t e ; w e i m m e d i a t e l y c o m m u n i c a t e d i t t o M r . H a w o r t h , w h o a g r e e d
p r e c i s e l y w i t h o u r i d e a s o n t h e s u b j e c t ; a n d , o n c o m p a r i n g i t , d e t e r m i n e d
t h a t i t h a d n o t b e e n t a k e n u p b y a n y m o d e r n a u t h o r . O n c o m p a r i n g i t w i t h
N . Z h z x e i f a , o f F l o r a G r s e c a , w e o b s e r v e d a s t r o n g s i m i l a r i t y b e t w e e n t h e m ;
t h i s w e m e n t i o n e d t o M r . H a w o r t h , w h o , o n c o m p a r i n g t h e m , f o u n d t h e m
v e r y s i m i l a r , b u t s t i l l d i s t i n c t , ( t h e d i s t i n c t i o n s h e h a s g i v e n i n t h e p a p e r o f
l u s , r e f e r r e d t o , ) f r o m w h i c h i t c h i e f l y d i f f e r s , i n t h e b u l b o f t h i s b e i n g t h r e e
t i m e s a s l a r g e , t h e s c a p e a t t h e b a s e b e i n g n e a r l y s o l i d , n o t h o l l o w , t h e f l o w e r -
s t a l k s a c u t e l y t r i a n g u l a r , n o t r o u n d i s h , t h e s e g m e n t s w h i t e r , c r o w n y e l l o w ,
n o t o r a n g e , t h e s e g m e n t s 2 a n d a h a l f t i m e s , n o t 3 t i m e s l o n g e r t h a n t h e
c r o w n , a n d s m o o t h , n o t p l a i t e d , a s i n F l o r a G r s e c a .
T h e g e n e r i c n a m e i s g e n e r a l l y s u p p o s e d t o b e d e r i v e d f r o m N a r c i s s u s ,
S o b o f the river Cephisus, and the nymph Liriope, a b e a u t i f u l y o u t h , w h o
s l i g h t e d t h e c o u r t s h i p o f E c h o , a n d o t h e r n y m p h s , a n d a t l a s t d i e d f o r t h e
l o v e o f h i m s e l f , h a . v i n g s e e n h i s o w n f a c e i n a f o u n t a i n , a n d w a s c h a n g e d i n t o
a f l o w e r b e a r i n g h i s n a m e . I n a n o t h e r n u m b e r , w e w i l l g i v e a d i f l ' e r e n t d e r i v
a t i o n f r o m T r e w .
Sect. H e r m i o n e , the daughter o f Menelaus, and Helena, b e t r o t h e d b y
h e r g r a n d f a t h e r t o O r e s t e s , y e t , b y h e r f a t h e r , g i v e n t o P y r r h u s ; b u t
O r e s t e s s l e w h i m i n t h e t e m p l e o f A p o l l o , a n d r e c o v e r e d h i s s p o u s e .
U Flower split open, to show the insertion of the 6 Stamens. 2. Style terminated with
the deeply S-parted Stigma. 3. Section of the Peduncle, to show the 3 sliarp angles. 4. Section
of the Scape, to show the small hole where cut.