272 PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Primula. 



P. veris /3, elatior. Linn. Sp. PL 204. Fl. Dan. n. 433. t. 434. 



P. veris altera. Camer. Epit. 884./. 



P. vulgaris /3. Hud*. 84. 



P. n. 609. i/aZ/. Hw*.i>. 1.271. 



P. pratensis inodorata lutea. Rail Syn. 284. 



I lerba Paralysis. Camer. Epit. 404./. 2. £/«>/. //ert. e. 1 . 97./. 



In woods, thickets, or pastures, rare. 



Perennial. April. 



Leaves contracted, or sinuated, about the middle, in which respect 

 this species differs from the preceding, and more agrees with the 

 following. Thejlowers are sweet-scented, all umbellate, smaller, 

 with a less expanded limb, than in the former, or its varieties j 

 but larger, paler coloured, and less cup-shaped, than in the Cow- 

 slip. It has often been supposed a mule between these two most 

 common species ; and having often, perhaps, been confounded 

 with the umbellate variety of the Primrose, its history and true 

 nature have become the more obscure. 



3. P. veris. Common Cowslip. Paigle. 



Leaves toothed, wrinkled, contracted towards the middle. 

 Stalk many -flowered. Limb of the corolla concave. 



P. veris. Linn. Sp. PL 204. Willd. v. 1 . 800. Huds.84. FL Br. 223. 



Engl. Bot. vA.t.b. Hook. Scot. 7 1 . Camer. Epit. 883./. 

 P. veris officinalis. Fl. Dan. n. 434. t. 433. Bull. Fr. t. 17 J. 

 P. veris major. Raii Syn. 284. Ger. Em. 780./. 

 P. officinalis. J acq. Misc. v. 1. 159. With. 234. Curt. Lond.fasc. 6. 



U 15. 

 P. n. 610. Hall. Hist. v. 1.271. 

 Herba Paralysis. Brunf. Herb. v. 1 . 96./. 



In meadows and pastures, chiefly on a clay, or chalky, soil. 



Perennial. April, May. 



Leaves hoary, more finely downy and soft than in either of the 

 foregoing, contracted in the middle, so as frequently to become 

 heart-shaped, as it were, with winged footstalks j their margin 

 wavy, as well as toothed. Flowers numerous, in one or more 

 umbels, with small partial brae teds, on downy common stalks 

 much taller than the leaves. Cal. downy. Limb of the corolla 

 much smaller than the last, concave, or cup-shaped ; of a deeper 

 yellow on the upper side, with 5 orange spots, or freckles, in 

 which Shakspear has supposed their sweet odour to reside. 

 These flowers make a pleasant soporific wine, resembling that 

 of Elder- flowers, or the Muscat wines of the south of France. 



A dark-flowered variety, called the Black Cowslip, has been sent 

 from Bedfordshire, by the late Rev. Dr. Abbot, with the calyx 

 divided to the base ; and from Northumberland, by Mr. Winch, 

 with the same part unaltered. 



