Daffodil
the popular name of a European plant which is one of the earliest ornaments of our gardens, being favorite objects of cultivation. It belongs to the order Amarylliadaceæ. Many varieties of the daffodil are in cultivation, differing chiefly in bulk and in the form of the flower, which is of a bright primrose-yellow color. There are other forms of the name in local or partial use. See NARCISSUS.
DAGHESTAN (däg-es-tän'), a province of Transcaucasia, Russia, stretching along the W. side of the Caspian Sea; area, 11,471 square miles. Its fertile and tolerably cultivated valleys produce good crops of grain, and also silk, cotton, flax, tobacco, etc. The inhabitants, almost all professed Mohammedans, consist chiefly of races of Tartar origin and of Circassians. Capital, Derbend. Pop. about 700,000.
PASCAL DAGNAN-BOUVERET, ADOLPHE JEAN, a French historical and portrait painter. Born in Paris in 1852 and, after years of study, won success with a picture entitled "The Consecrated Bread" (1886), now displayed in the Luxembourg. Other important paintings of his are "The Conscripts" (1891); "Spanish Dancer" (1909); and "Marguerite au Sabat" (1912). In 1885 he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and in 1889 received the first Specimedal of the Salon for his painting "Breton Women at the Pardon." Specimens of his work are in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and in many European galleries.