Bowles, Edward Augustus, 1865-1954 · London, T. C. & E. C. Jack · leaf 173
accept-ing the more popular daffodil for the Narcissus, which haslived on as a familiar word, while the other has beenrectified to a form nearer its classic original. ThatDaffodil is Affo dyle, that which cometh early has beenconfidently asserted by some (see Sowerbys English Botany 1 Turner,… … Anemone sylvestris grandiflora. (See p. 218.) Daffodils for an instance), but is ignored by the Oxford Dictionary,and as I have found no evidence for it beyond bare asser-tions, this time I thankfully avail myself of the authorityof the great work. Again, that Saffron-lily has given…
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