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Cla/s and Order. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. *s 
Generic Charaéer. : 
~ Involucrum umbellule. Corolle tubus cylindricus: ore patulo., 
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: “Specific Character and Synonyms. ; 
PRIMULA Jongifolia foliis fpathulatis, denticulatis, utrinque 
, .+ . nudis, poft florefcentiam clongatis, ereétiufculis; 
umbella ere€ta, multiflora. 
The plant here figured we received, about three years fince, 
from Mefirs. Grimwoop and Co. Nurferymen, Kenfington, 
to whom it had been recently fent from France by Mr. Wit- 
trams, Nurferyman, near Paris, but without any information 
as to its original place of growth. ee ee 
_ We have found it to be a very hardy perennial fpecie: 
' bearing a great affinity to the Primula farinofa, but differing 
from it in many effential points both of foliage and flowers. 
The leaves differ in form, colour, and mode of growth : when 
fully grown, taking two plants of an equal degree of !uxurianc 
they are twice the length of thofe of farino/a; indeed, from the 
unufual length, when fully grown, which they are not when 
in flower, proportioned to the fize of the plant, we have 
thought that the term: /Jongifolia-might well ferve as its trivial 
name, They are not mealy, the under fide being as green 48 
the upper; and they have a greater tendency to grow upright, 
the fcapus is fhorter and thicker, the flowers form a fimilart 
umbel ; but each individual bloffom is fimaller, and in point ot 
colour much lefs brilliant: upon the whole, though fuperio 
in fize, itis inferior to the farino/a in beauty. — eg 
It flowers early in May; is a plant of ready growth; will 
fucceed either in the pot or the open border, guarding it from 
the fun in fummer, and from fevere froft and too much wet 1 
winter ; is propagated by parting its roots, either in Septem 
or the beginning of March. ~ oe 
We have found it very liable to be injured by the » 
Plant-Loufe or Blighter. as oe 
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