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Primula Margin at a. Stiver- 

 Edged Primula. 



C7^/> rt/zi Order. 

 Pemtandria Monogynia.- 



Generic Character. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 

 PRIMULA marginata foliis- obovatis ferrato-dentatis alba 

 marginatis, fcapo multifloro, involucri foliolis 

 pedunculis brevioribus. 



There is no difficulty in determining the Britifh plants of 

 this genus, but much in afcertaining many of the foreign ones: 

 Profeflbr Jacouin has taken great pains to* elucidate them in 

 his Mifccl. Aujlr. where fifteen are fpecifically defcribed, none 

 of which accord exactly with the plant here figured, which has 

 every appearance of being a dillincl fpecies : in the Hort us 

 Kewen/is it is defcribed as the glutinofa of the Flora Anflriaca* 

 with which it agrees in many refpecls, but fpecimens fent from 

 Vienna fhew it to be a different plant; in its farinaceous ten- 

 dency it accords with the Primula Auricula, but is very unlike 

 that plant as it is figured in its wild date by Prof. Jacquin,. 

 in the Fl. Aujlr. the leaves being much narrower, the flowers 

 larger, and of a different colour; it differs from glutinofa in 

 the fhortnefs of its involucrum, from villqfa (already figured) 

 in having leaves much narrower, perfectly fmooth in refpect 

 to villi, and in the colour of its bloflbms, which approach that 

 of the Lilac, but more efpecially in its difpofition to become 

 mealy, particularly on the edges of its leaves, between the 

 ferratures, where it is fo ftrong as to make the leaf appear 

 with a white or filvery edge ; as this character is conftant to tfi 

 and not to any other fpecies of Primula that we are acquainted 

 with, we have given to it the name of marginata. 



Mr. Lee received it from the Alps in the year 1781, and it 

 has continued in our gardens ever fince unaltered by culture. 



It is a very delicate pretty plant, with a pleafing mufky &»«** 

 and flowers in March and April. To fucceed in its cultivation, 

 it fhould be placed in a pot of ftiffifh loam, mixed with one- 

 third rotten leaves, bog-earth, or dung, and plunged in a north 

 border, taking care that it does not fuffer for want of water m 

 dry feafons; thus treated, it increafes by its roots nearly aS 

 readily as the Auricula, and may be propagated by parting * ts 

 roots early in April or September. 



