shaped; pedicels erect, unequal (from half an inch to an 
inch long), pubescent. Calyx (four lines and a_ half 
long,) glanduloso-pubescent, pentagonal, ovato-oblong, 
five-toothed, angles prominent and green, interstices mem- 
branous, diaphanous, and purplish. Corolla very handsome, 
purplish-lilac in bud or when recently expanded, more blue 
after a few days ; tube scarcely longer than the calyx, purple, 
glabrous, wrinkled ; faux hemispherical, slightly glandu- 
loso-pubescent and purple on the outside, yellow within ; 
limb spreading, nearly flat, segments elliptical, emarginate. 
Anthers nearly sessile in the throat, yellow, pollen yellow. 
Germen globular, glabrous, lobed. Style (in the specimen 
described, but, as in allied species, its length probably 
varies) twice the length of the germen. Stigma large, hemi- 
spherical. 
This most desirable addition to the cultivated species of a 
universally admired Genus, was obtained by Mr. Nei 
from Mr. Gotpie, who brought it from St. Petersburgh. 
It flowered beautifully in the cold frame at Canon Mills in 
April last, producing an umbel of eighteen perfect flowers. 
In its native station, the Caucasian Alps, it is described by 
Marscuat Bieserstein, its discoverer, as havyimg an umbel 
with from three to ten flowers ; and a variety is noticed by 
Biezerstein in which the scape is wanting, the pedicels 
being all radical and single-flowered ; another analogy, if 
any were wanting, to confirm the opinion, that there is no 
specific distinction between Primuxa vulgaris and P. elatior, 
- ourcommon Primrose and Oxlip. Graham. 
US Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Pistil. 
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