Daffodil, a lily-like flowering herb belonging to the same family as the iris, or blue flag, and the blue-eyed grass. The flower scape springs from a bulb; the corolla is noticeable for a trumpet-shaped hood, rising in its center. Narcissus, the botanical name, includes daffodils and jonquils. The common daffodil is a meadow plant eighteen inches high, found from Sweden and England to Spain and Austria. Wordsworth's delight in the daffodil is worth a place here: I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils,-- Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering, dancing in the breeze. There are a large number of varieties of daffodils in cultivation. Among the more interesting is the hoop-petticoat daffodil, which has solitary, erect, yellow flowers. Another variety, the rush daffodil, has a short crown and slender, drooping tube. Then the pied wind-flowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness.