The first that hath made mention of this Daffodill, was Matthiolus, who placed it in the third place among his Daffodils, and is most vsually now adayes called _Narcissus tertius Matthioli_, Matthiolus his third Daffodill, the rather, because Clusius vpon a more mature deliberation, first referred it thereunto, but called it at the first, _Lilionarcissus Hemerocallidis facie_, and, as hee saith, Iacobus Plateau (who first sent him the figure hereof, with the description) called it _Lilionarcissus Orientalis_, but Clusius vpon certaine information, that it grew in the places aforesaid, misliked the name of _Orientalis_, and added _Hemerocallis_, which yet is not fit, for that his _Hemerocallis Valentina_, is a plaine Pancration or Sea bastard Daffodill, whose middle cup is longer then the cup of any true Daffodill, which (as I said in the beginning of this Chapter) is the chiefest note of difference, betweene a true and a bastard Daffodill. I receiued the seede of this Daffodill among many other seedes of rare plants, from the liberality of Mʳ. Doctor Flud, one of the Physitians of the Colledge in London, who gathered them in the Vniuersity Garden at Pisa in Italy, and brought them with him, returning home from his trauailes into those parts, by the name of _Martagon rarissimum_, (and hauing sowne them, expected fourteene yeares, before I saw them beare a flower, which the first yeare that it did flower, bore foure stalkes of flowers, with euery one of them eight or ten flowers on them) which of all other names, doth least answer the forme or qualities of this plant. It may most fitly be called _Narcissus marinus maximus_, in English, The great Sea Daffodill, both because it is a true Daffodill, and the greatest of all other, and also because it hath not been found, but in Islands, or else in other places neare the Sea. Lobelius entituleth it _Pancratium Indicum alterum vernum, siue Narcissus Indicus alter facie Pancratij Monspeliaci_, but all this is wide from the matter, as may easily be known, by that that hath been said before. It is generally (as I said before) called of all _Narcissus tertius Matthioli_, Matthiolus his third Daffodill, which may either so passe with vs, or as I called it, The great Sea Daffodill, which you will, & so Clusius doth lastly entitle it. [Illustration: 1 _Narcissus tertius Matthioli._ The great white Sea Daffodill. 2 _Narcissus Indicus Autumnalis._ The Indian Autumne Daffodill. 3 _Narcissus marinus Africanus._ The Sea Daffodill of Africa. 4 _Narcissus marinus exoticus._ The strange Sea Daffodill. ]