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. PRIMULA minima. 



Smallest Auricula, Snow-rosette. 



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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



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Nat. or d. LvsiMACHiiE. Jnssieu gen, 95, Blv. 11. Flores scapo in- 



sidentesj umbellati involucre polyphyllo, aut ranils solitarii. 



Folia radicalia, 



Primulace^, Brown prod. 1. 427. 

 PRIMULA. Supri fol 539. 



P. minima, foliis cuneiformibus nitidis apice multidentatis, scapo subunifloro 

 foUis breviore, corollse laciniis semibifidis Y graecum referentibus, fauce 

 . villosula. LeJmtann monog. prim. 85. 



P/imuIa minima. Lin. sp, pL ed. 2. 1. 203. Jacq. enum. pi. agr. vind. 208. 

 obs. hot. 24. t. 14. misc. 1. 160.^. austr. n. 273. t. 273. Host synops. 98, 

 Suterjl, helv. 1. 113. Braunejl. salisburg. n. 169. Sckrank Jl. salisb, 

 6o, Willd. sp. pL 1. 805. Schmidt fl. bohem. 4(3. Willd. enum, 1, 

 192. 



Primula foliis cuneiformibus nitidis, scapis unifloris. Hall. helv. n. 614. 

 Auricula- Ursi minima. Clus. hist. 1. 305; cum, ic. 



Rad. crassitie pennce anserince et ultra, per cetatem nigrescens ijibris albi- 

 dis. Fol. ctmeiformia, unguicidarla, in rosulas collectUy glaberrima, nitida, 

 corlacca, apice profunde dentuta : dentihus acutis. Scapus obsolete trian- 

 gularis foliis brevior, unijlorus rariiis hijlorus. Invol. submonophyllamy ob- 

 longurn, paleaceum. Cal. tubulosus, ^-Jidus : laciniis rotundatis brevibus 

 obtusis. Cor. carnea (v. violacea), subsessilis, sapt magnitudine totius 

 plantce I ad faucem villis albidis : limbo pat ente: laciniis semibijidis Y grce- 

 tum refer entibus. Caps, obtusissima, nitida. Variat Jioribus albis, limbi 

 laciniis et latioribus et angustioribus. Lehmann I. c. 



The smallest known species of its genus. Lately intro- 

 duced by the Horticultural Society. Drawn in their garden 

 at Hammersmith. 



It has been supposed to be extremely impatient of cul- 

 tivation when removed from its natural abode^ the tops 

 of the highest mountains of the South of Europe, wliich it 

 ascends to the limits of perpetual snow, at the elevation of 

 7000 to 8000 feet above the level of the sea. 



The corolla is large in proportion to the plant, and 

 varies from pink to violet-purple and white: sometimes 

 it equals all the rest of the plant together. The herb 

 of the wild sample is still more diminutive than in the 

 cultivated one. 



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