It is a native of different parts of North-America, and flowers with us in May. There is little difficulty in distinguishing it from the other foreign species, it has rarely more than two radical leaves, a very short flowering stem compared with the others, a large nectary in proportion to its size, which in the specimens we have seen has been divided on its upper part, through its whole length, so as in fact to destroy in a great degree that shoe or slipper-like form, from which this genus has taken its name. Like the rest of the family, it requires a little extraordinary care in its culture; its roots should be placed in a pot filled with loam and bog-earth, or rotten leaves, well mixed, and plunged in a north border, where in severe seasons it will be proper to shelter it; if the whole border be formed of the same soil or compost the pot will be less necessary. Our drawing was made from a plant growing with Messrs. GRIMWOOD and Co. Kensington. [Illustration] [193] NARCISSUS ANGUSTIFOLIUS. NARROW-LEAVED NARCISSUS. _Class and Order._ HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. _Generic Character._ _Petala_ 6 aequalia. _Nectario_ infundibuliformi, 1-phyllo. _Stamina_ intra nectarium. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ NARCISSUS _poeticus_ spatha uniflora, nectario rotato brevissimo scarioso crenulato. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 317._ _Sp. Pl. ed. 3. p. 414._ NARCISSUS uniflorus, foliis ensiformibus, scypho brevissimo. _Hall. Hist. n. 1250._ NARCISSUS albus circulo purpureo. _Bauh. Pin. p. 48._ _Magnol. Bot. Monsp. p. 181._ NARCISSUS poeticus medio purpureus. _Lob._ NARCISSUS medio purpureus. _Dod. Pempt. p. 223. f. 1._ NARCISSUS medio purpureus praecox. Timely purple ringed Daffodil. _Ger. Herb. p. 108. f. 2._ also _praecocior, fig. 3._ and _praecocissimus, fig. 4._ NARCISSUS medio purpureus praecox. The early purple ringed Daffodil. _Park. Parad. p. 76. t. 75. f. 3._ NARCISSUS latifol. classis altera, lin. 7. alterum vero, &c. _Clus. Hist. Pl. rar. lib. 2. p. 156._ Under the name of _poeticus_ three different species of Narcissus appearing perfectly distinct (though similar in many respects) and regarded as such by the old Botanists, have been confounded by the moderns, viz. Narcissus albus circulo purpureo, v et vi } Narcissus albus magno odoro flore circulo pallido,} C. Bauh. Narcissus pallidus circulo luteo } Narcissus medio purpureus praecox, } Narcissus medio purpureus serotinus,} Park Parad. Narcissus medio luteus vulgaris, } The first of these, the one here figured is evidently the _poeticus_ of _Linnaeus_, judging by the authors to whom he refers in the third edition of his _Spec. Pl._ which are indeed few in number, and confined chiefly to _Bauh. Pin._ _Dodonaeus_; of the second, and third, he takes no notice.