Ste,—The writer of the ever-instructive Quiz gives Lent Lily as the old name of the daffodil. Housman, of course, uses this name:—
" And there's the Lenten lily That has not lone, to stay, And dies on Easter day '
But Shakespeare had a yet lovelier name, the Chalice Flower:— " His steeds to water at those springs On chalked flowers that lies."
The daffodil was considered to " resemble the chalice that is former days with us and beyond the seas is still used to hold Sacramental Wine." says Woodwa.d. quoting a seventeenth-century author.
