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Such is the account in M. l'Abbé Ladvocat's _Dictionnaire Historique-Portatif_, Paris, 1760. Daffodil means appearing early in the year. The number of races, varieties, and forms of Daffodil, Jonquil, etc., has become innumerable; yet it is doubtful if any are quite so graceful and absolutely charming as the _Narcissus poeticus_, supposed to be the original of the above legend.