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PRIMULA Munroi. 
Captain Munro’s Primrose. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. PRiMULACEX. (Primworts. Vegetable Kingdom, p. 644.) 
PRIMULA.— Botanical Register, 1846. t. 31. 
$ Armerina, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1846. t. 31. 
P. Munroi; bulbosa, foliis longè petiolatis subcordatis obtusis v. emar- 
ginatis leviter repandis glabris, scapo elatiore 5-7-floro, pedicellis involucro 
deorsum producto longioribus, calyce oblongo prismatico basi angustato 
apice brevissimě 5-dentato corolle tubo quali, corollze lobis subrotundis 
semibifidis. 
In many respects this is strikingly like P. involucrata, 
and it may be a mere variety of that species. But if the dis- 
tinctions admitted by botanists among the European so- 
called species, are valid, then must this be regarded as essen- 
tially different. It is a yellower green; itis much larger ; 
its leaves are slightly cordate, and extremely blunt; its 
flowers are twice as large; and the calyx (fig. 1) is of quite a 
different form. Instead of being taper, it is prismatical ; 
instead of being contracted above the base, and then bulging 
out, it is gradually narrowed into the pedicel; and instead of 
being shorter than the tube of the corolla, it is as long; its 
teeth, too, are much shorter than those of P. involucrata. 
Like the latter, it is a charming little alpine perennial, 
which grows freely in a mixture of loam, sandy peat, and 
leaf-mould, and flowers from March to May, in either a cold 
pit, or the open border. 
It is easily increased by dividing the old plant in the 
spring, when it first commences growing, and is well suited 
for growing on rockwork ; but it requires a moist shady 
situation in summer, and to be kept quite dry during winter, 
otherwise it soon perishes from the effects of damp. The 
flowers are deliciously fragrant. 
