NARCI S SUS Pfeudo-narciffus.
Common Daffodil.
H E X A N D R 1A Monogynia,
Gen. Char. Petals fix, equal. Neffarium funnel-
form, one-leaved. Stamina within the nedlarium.
Spec. Char. Spatha one-flowered. Neftarium bell-
form, eredt, curled, and equalling the ovate petals.
Syn. Narciflus pfeudo-narciffus. Linn. Sp. PI. 4 14 .
Hudf. F I. An. 181 . With. Bot. Arr. 342.
N - fyJvcftris pallidus, calyce luteo. Ran Syn. 3 7 1 .
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X HE NarciJTus Pfeudo-narciffus, or common Daffodil, may be
confidered as one of the moft beautiful of the native plants of
this kingdom. It grows chiefly in damp fixations. The name
Pfeudo-narciffus, or Falfe Narciflus, was given to this fpecies, in
order to prevent its being confounded with the True Narciffus
of the ancients, or Narciffus Poeticus. In the defcriptions of
rural poetry it has long been celebrated, and feldom fails to obtain
an honourable mention among!! the opening beauties of
the fpring. There is an exotic fpecies of this genus which extremely
refembles the prefent; in that fpecies however the
petals have a more expanded appearance, and the whole plant
is confiderably larger. To this may be added, that in our prefent
fpecies the alternate petals are fomewhat fmaller. The
figure here given we have copied from a moft elegant drawing
prefented by Richard Anthony Salifbury, Efq. a gentleman eminently
diftinguifhed for the accuracy of his botanical refearches.