Question 729

"When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park, we saw a few Xs close to the water side. We fancied that the lake had floated the seed ashore and that the little colony had so sprung up. But as we went along there were more and more and at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road.

I never saw Xs so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake, they looked so gay ever dancing ever changing.

This wind blew directly over the lake to them. There was here and there a little knot and a few stragglers a few yards higher up but they were so few as not to disturb the simplicity and unity and life of that one busy highway. We rested again and again. The Bays were stormy, and we heard the waves at different distances and in the middle of the water like the sea."

This above quoted text which describes an event involving Y and his sister, inspired Y to write down his experience of the same which is based on Xs. X is the more common name of something which is also known by a scientific name Z taken from the mythological character. Put funda and identify X, Y and Z.

Z

Answer: Quoting Chandramohan "X-DAFFODILS Y-WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Z-NARCISSUS
Funda:
A youth(in Greek mythology)called Narcissus, became so obsessed with his own reflection as he kneeled and gazed into a pool of water that he fell into the water and drowned. In another variation, he died of starvation and thirst from just sitting by the edge of the pool until he gave out, gazing at his reflection until he died. In both versions, the Narcissus plant first sprang from where he died.