. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. NARCISSUS L. Sp. PI. 289. 1753. Bulbous herbs, the flowers solitary or sev- eral on leafless scapes, the leaves linear, basal. Flowers subtended by a deciduous spathe-; peri- anth 6-parted, bearing a cup-like funnelform or cylindric crown in the throat. Stamens in- serted on the tube of the perianth; ovary 3- celled; ovules numerous in each cavity; cap- sule th
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. NARCISSUS L. Sp. PI. 289. 1753. Bulbous herbs, the flowers solitary or sev- eral on leafless scapes, the leaves linear, basal. Flowers subtended by a deciduous spathe-; peri- anth 6-parted, bearing a cup-like funnelform or cylindric crown in the throat. Stamens in- serted on the tube of the perianth; ovary 3- celled; ovules numerous in each cavity; cap- sule thin-walled. About 20 species, natives of the Old World. Type species: Narcissus poeticus L. i. Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus L. Daf- fodil. Fig. 1320. Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus L. Sp. PI. 289. 1753. Scape about 1° high, 2-edged. Leaves nar- rowly linear, about as long as the scape; flower bright yellow, 2'-3' broad; crown crenate, rather longer than the perianth. Escaped from cultivation, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Native of Europe. Called also Daffy, Daf- fodilly, Daffodowndilly. April—May. Flowers often double. Narcissus poeticus L., Poets' Narcissus, with white flowers, the crown shorter than the peri- anth ; has also, locally, escaped from cultivation; it is a native of Europe. 2. ATAMOSCO Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 57, 524. 1763. [ZephyrAnthes Herb. App. Bot. Reg. 36. 1821.] Glabrous herbs with coated bulbs, narrow leaves, and erect i-flowered scapes, the flower large, erect, pink, white or purple. Perianth funnelform, naked in the throat, with 6 mem- branous equal erect-spreading lobes united below into a tube, subtended by an entire or 2-cleft bract. Stamens inserted on the throat of the perianth, equal or nearly so; anthers versatile. Ovary 3-celled; style long, filiform, 3-cleft at the summit; ovules numerous, in 2 rows in each cavity of the ovary. Capsule thin-walled, subglobose or depressed, 3-lobed loculi- cidally 3-valved. Seeds mostly flattened, black or nearly so. [Gre
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