Narciss

Come hyther O thou sweete face boy: see see, to thy selfe heere / How fayre Nymphes in baskets full doo bring manie Lillies: / White violets sweete Nais plucks and bloomes fro the Poppies, / Narcyss, and dyll flowres most sweete that sauoureth also.

Nor are all taken at the ſame time, as he ſeems to intimate; for Narciſſes and Crocuſſes are commonly taken up firſt, generally when the flower is gone, the leaf withered, and the Bulb full, it is the beſt ſeaſon to take them up; […]

Musk Narcisse. Narcissus moschatus.

Dear Muse, for whom twin’st thou this vocal wreath? / For whom this garland gay of flowers that breathe? / These Meleager culled—to friendship due / Diocles won these flowers of various hue. / Thy lilies Anyte,—and loved Myro’s / Fair buds—and Sappho’s scant but blooming rose— / The rich narciss of Melanippides— / The vine’s young shoot from green Simonides— / Thine iris, Nossis, on whose cup are shed / Sweet-breathing scents, and love’s own perfume spread— / And Rian’s buds, with marjoram soft imbued— / Erinna’s crocus white and virgin-hued, / Alcæus, speaking hyacinths he weaves, / Samius his laurel’s bright and sable leaves.

In other sections of the narciss family yellow is the predominant colour. […] This term is never applied to a narciss.

Many hundreds of the choicest varieties of tulips, narcisses and crocuses, with squills and other bulbs, sent up their delicate flowers during the early spring.