Latin Texts & Translations

There is a purple ^[Note] lily, too, which sometimes has a double stem; it differs only from the other lilies in having a more fleshy root and a bulb of larger size, but undivided: ^[Note] the name given to it is "narcissus" ^[Note] A second variety of this lily has a white flower, with a purple corolla. There is also this difference between the ordinary lily and the narcissus, that in the latter the leaves spring from the root of the plant. The finest are those which grow on the mountains of Lycia. A third variety is similar to the others in every respect, except that the corolla of the plant is green. They are all of them late ^[Note] flowers: indeed, they only bloom after the setting of Arcturus, ^[Note] and at the time of the autumnal equinox.