narciss

noun

1. (obsolete)Narcissus.

   “Come hyther O thou sweete face boy: see see, to thy selfe heere / How fayre Nymphes in baskets full doo bring manie Lillies: / White violets sweete Nais plucks and bloomes fro the Poppies, / Narcyss, and dyll flowres most sweete that sauoureth also.”

   “Nor are all taken at the ſame time, as he ſeems to intimate; for Narciſſes and Crocuſſes are commonly taken up firſt, generally when the flower is gone, the leaf withered, and the Bulb full, it is the beſt ſeaſon to take them up; […]”

   “Musk Narcisse. Narcissus moschatus.”

   “In other sections of the narciss family yellow is the predominant colour. […] This term is never applied to a narciss.”