Narcissus

(-sis's us.) (Myth.) A beautiful youth, for love of whom Echo pined away; and who, falling in love with his own image in a stream, himself pined away, and was changed, according to the legend, into the flower called after his name.-(Bot.) A genus of plants, O. Amaryllid ace a, the numerous species of which are among the most beautiful of spring-flower bulbs. They have linear-lorate leaves, and radical scapes bearing one or many flowers, which are usually yellow, but sometimes white. They have been thrown into several groups, among which the Daffodils are distinguished by having the cylindrical cup longer than the funnel-shaped tube. [s. 631]