84 FLORA HISTORICA. 



COWSLIP. Primula veris. 



Natural Order Precice. Lysimachicc, Juss. A Genus 

 of the Pentandria Monogynia Class. 



Cowslips wan, that hang the pensive head. 



Milton. 



This favourite flower of our native fields has had 

 its praises sung by our sweetest poets in a manner 

 that revives the pleasures of our infant days, when 

 gambling on the grass we delighted in the sports of 

 the Cowslip ball, catching and throwing at each 

 other the floral globes we had formed by uniting 

 the clusters of these fragrant blossoms. 



How cheerful along the gay mead, 

 The Daisy and Cowslip appear ! 



Hymn of Eve. 

 How exquisitely sweet 

 This rich display of flowers, 

 This airy wild of fragrance, 

 So lovely to the eye, 

 And to the sense so sweet. 



G. B. And reiki's Adam. 



When April's smiles the flowery lawn adorn, 

 And modest Cowslips deck the streamlet's side ; 



When fragrant orchards to the roseate morn 



Unfold their bloom, in heaven's own colours dyed. 



MlCKLE. 



