This Daffodill beareth a number of small, long, narrow, and very greene leaues, broader then the leaues of any Rush Daffodill, among which rise vp diuers stalkes, bearing at the head two or three flowers a peece, each of them being small and yellow, the cup or crowne is small also, of a deeper yellow then the flower. The Nobleman of Florence, who first sent this plant to Christian Porret at Leyden, after the death of Carolus Clusius, writeth that euery stalke doth beare with him more store of flowers, then are formerly set downe, and that it neuer ceaseth to beare flowers, but that after one or more stalkes haue been in flower together, and are past, there succeed other in their places. The Place. The first is naturall of Spain, the naturall place of the other is not known to vs. The Time. The times of the flowring, are set downe both in the title and in the descriptions; the one to be in Autumne, the other to be all the Summer long. The Names. The Latine names are imposed on them, as are fittest for them, and the last by that honourable man that sent it, which is most fit to continue, and not to bee changed. But wee, to let it bee knowne by an English name to English people, haue entituled it, The yellow Italian Daffodill of Caccini: if any man can giue it a more proper name, I shall bee therewith right well content. _Narcissus angustifolius, siue Iuncifolius maximus, amplo calice._ The great Iunquilia with the large flower or cup. Although this Daffodill importeth by his name, not to be of this family, but of the next, considering it is so like vnto them, but bigger; yet I haue thought good to place it in the end of these narrow leafed Daffodils, as being indifferent, whether it should bee referred to this or to that. For this carrieth diuers long green leaues, like vnto the other Rush Daffodils, but thicker and broader, so that it may without any great errour, bee reckoned among these narrow leafed Daffodils, bearing at the toppe two or three very faire large flowers, with a large and more open cuppe, then in any other of the Rush Daffodils, both of them of a faire yellow colour, yet the cuppe a little deeper then the flower, and a little crumpled about the edges, and both a pretty sharpe sent: the roote is greater and longer then the other Rush Daffodill, and couered likewise with a blackish coate. The Place. We haue this in Gardens onely, and haue not heard of his naturall place. The Time. It flowreth in Aprill. The Names. I leaue it indifferent, as I said, whether you will call it _Narcissus angustifolius_, or _Iuncifolius magno calice_, or _maximus_, because it is the greatest of all the rest of that kinde. _Narcissus totus albus flore pleno Virginianus._ The double white Daffodill of Virginia.