CORTUSALS. 198 PRIMWORTS. _ 
Ceespitose ; leaves linear, smooth, or nearly so; scapes dwarf, villous ; 
involucral leaves herbaceous at the back. 
Habitat. Cliffs. Common in gardens as an edging. 
Quality. Flowers active and useful as diuretics. 
Natural Order, Primwarts ; Primulacee (V. K., p. 644.) 
Prevailing Quality. Acridity. 
Primuta. Linneus. 
Corolla hypocrateriform, dilated in the orifice. Filaments very short. 
Capsule ovate, 5-valved. 
1. P. veris Linnzeus.—(Cowstie.) Ce 
Leaves oblong, rugose ; scape longer, bearing an umbel at the end ; limb 
of corolla short, concave. 
Habitat. Meadows. 
Quality. Flowers sedative. t a 
Uses, oo fermented with sugar they form a soporific domestic wine ; used for 
wheys. 
CycuaMen. Linneus. 
Corolla rotate, with a long reflexed 
limb. Anthers prominent, cuspi- 
date. Peduncles twisted spirally 
downwards after flowering. Fruit 
leathery, scarcely dehiscent. 
1. C. europewn Linneus.—(Sow- 
Bread.) Fig. 268. 
