NARCISSUS maximus.
Great Daffodil.
Linnean Class and Order. H E X A N D R I A M O N O G Y N IA .
N a tu ra l Order. A M A R Y L L I D E Æ . Brown prodr. \. p . 296.
N A R C IS SU S . P erianthium mianiihvliiorme : limbo 6 - p a r t i to , p a t e n t e :
corond c am p a n u l a t a , p l e r um q u e in t e g r â . Stamina t u b o in s e r ta . Stigma
t r i lo b u m . Capsula 3 - lo c u l a r i s , 3 -v a lv is , p o ly s p e rm a .
P l a n tæ bulbosæ, plerumque europææ. S p a th a monophylla, latere dehiscens,
ì-multifiora. F lo r e s fla v i v. albi. S em in a subrotunda, bi v. trifaria,
lævia, basi exteriors liberà fungoso-callosâ.
** Corond fa u c is tubulosd sæpiüs laciniarum longitudine, staminibus extra
tubum exsertis subæqualibus conniventibus, spathd uniflord.^ A j a x . ^
N . maximus, p e r i a n th i i la c in ii s o v a tis p a te n t ib u s tu b o d u p lò lo n g io r ib u s , c o ro n a
in fu n d ib u li f o rm i l a c in ia r um lo n g itu d in e : lim b o p a t e n t i 6 - lo b o in c is o - c r e n a to ,
fo liis p l a n i s .
A j a x m a x im u s . Haworth monogr. 3 .
A. propinquus, a. E jusd, revis, narciss.
N a r c is s u s to tu s lu t e u s , c a lic e p ræ lo n g o . Rudb. elys, i . 7 1 . / . 9 . {bona,)
Scapes erect, round, solid, deeply fluted, from a span to a
foot high. Leaves ahout the length of the scape, hroadly
linear, hlunt, plain and even, glaucous green. Spathes mo-
nophyllous, scariosely memhranous, pale hrown, split
laterally, one-flowered. Perianthium funnel-shaped, ot a
deep yellow ; tuhe turhinate, very short, greenish yellow ;
limh deeply 6-parted, with ovate, pointed, spreading, slightly
twisted segments; crown dilated, funnel-shaped, rather
longer than the segments, the limh spreading, 6-lobed, lobes
round, overlapping each other at the base, deeply and
unequally crenated, and waved. Stamens 6, equal, connivent,
shorter than the crowm. Ovarium turbinate, deeply
furrowed. Style longer than the stamens. Stigma with 3,
rounded, papillose spreading lohes.
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