AURICULA. 2U3 



AURICULA. Primula Auricula. 



Natural Order Precice. A Genus of the Pentandria 



Monogynia Class. 



Auriculas, enrioh'd 



"With shining meal o'er all their velvet leaves. 



Thomson - . 

 Queen of the snowy Alps, in glittering pride 

 She rears her palace on the mountain's side ; 

 There, as bright sun-beams light her spangled throne, 

 Attendant sylphs the acirial empress own ; 

 Bkpand their purple plumes, and raised in air, 

 "Wave their green banners to protect the fair ; 

 Imperial beauty, with resistless sway, 

 Tames the rude bears, and bids their tribes obey ; 

 Roar round each crystallVl cliff and moss-girt plain, 

 And guard in shaggy troops her bright domain. 

 Delighted Boreas views her from afar, 

 And drives in stormy state his ebon car ; 

 Low at her feet the boist'rous monarch bows, 

 And breathes his passion "mid descending snows, 

 While timid Zephyr flies through fields of air, 

 Scarce daring to approach the hill-encircled fair. 



Shaw. 



This favourite offspring of vernal Flora is a native 

 of the icy summits of the Alps, from whence the 

 Flemish gardeners first procured it, and brought it 

 into cultivation, before its beauties were known in 

 other distant lands, or regarded in its native country. 

 But when it was once ascertained to be a plant on 



