The great yellow Spanish Bastard Daffodil. _Parkins. Parad. t. 101.
fig. 1._
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The present species of Daffodil is the largest of the genus, and bears
the most magnificent flowers, but, though it has long been known in this
country, it is confined rather to the gardens of the curious.
It is a native of Spain, and flowers with us in April. As its roots
produce plenty of offsets, it is readily propagated.
It approaches in its general appearance very near to the _Narcissus
Pseudo-Narcissus_, but differs in being a much taller plant, having its
leaves more twisted, as well as more glaucous, its flowers (but
especially its Nectary) much larger, and its petals more spreading; and
these characters are not altered by culture.
It answers to the _bicolor_ of LINNAEUS in every respect but
colour, and we should have adopted that name, had not the flowers with
us been always of a fine deep yellow; we have therefore taken
BAUHIN's name as the most expressive.
It varies with double flowers.
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~Gentiana acaulis. Large-Flowered Gentian, or Gentianella.~
_Class and Order._
~Pentandria Digynia.~
_Generic Character._
_Corolla_ monopetala. _Capsula_ bivalvis, 1-locularis. _Receptaculis_
2-longitudinalibus.
_Specific Character and Synonyms._
GENTIANA _acaulis_ corolla quinquefida campanulata caulem excedente.
_Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. 267._