mealy, naked, bearing an wmbel of several flowers. Invo- 
lucre of several lanceolate, subulate leaves, slightly con- 
cave, but scarcely gibbous at the base, a little mealy. 
Peduncles slender. Calyx oblongo-oval, cut about half 
way down into five lanceolato-ovate, erect segments. 
Corolla: tube cylindrical, yellow ; limb of five, horizon- 
tally patent, obcordato-cuneate, bifid, very pale, whitish, 
flesh-coloured segments, the mouth yellow, with five obso- 
lete, yellow glands, and a bright yellow ring round it. 
Germen globose: Style nearly as long as the tube: Stigma 
capitate. 
Great difficulty unquestionably attends the determining 
those species of the Genus Primuta that are allied to the 
P. farinosa, among which the present may certainly be 
reckoned. Ihad been lately disposed to unite it with what 
I take to be the true P. mistassinica, figured at t. 2073 of 
our Magazine, but on seeing that figure, Mr. Goxpie, the 
original authority for P. puszlla, pronounced the two to be 
decidedly distinct. At his suggestion, therefore, I have 
again examined the P. pusilla as it flowered in a cold frame 
in our Glasgow Botanic Garden, in April, 1830, and all the 
differences that I can discover are detailed in the figure 
and in the description. If these should prove constant, 
therefore, I have no hesitation in pronouncing the two 
plants distinct. |The present has always pale flowers 
(whence I have been led to doubt the correctness of 
SWEET’s figure), and they are delightfully fragrant. The 
species inhabits many parts of Canada, where it is not un- 
_ frequently mistaken for the real P. farinosa. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and Pistil—Muagnified. 
