PENTANDRIA-MONOGYNIA. Primula. 273 



4. P. farinosa. Bird's-eye Primrose. 



Leaves toothed, even ; powdery beneath. Limb of the co- 

 rollaflat; mouth with a notched border. Stigma undivided. 



P. farinosa. Linn. Sp. PL 205. Willd. v. 1 . 802. FL Br. 224. Engl. 

 Bot. v.l.t. 6. Curt. Lond.fasc. 6. t. 14. Hook. Scot.7\. Lond 

 t.\33.f.6—9. FL Dan. t. 125. 



P. veris flore rubro. Ger. Em. 783./. Clus. Pann. 340./. 



Verbasculum umbellatum alpinum minus. Rail Syn. 285. 



Aretia n. 6*23. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 2/5. 



In wet pastures and by rivulets, on mountains in the north of En- 

 gland, as well as in Scotland. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Half the size of the last; distinguished by the white mealiness of 

 the /lower-stalks and backs of the leaves, whose upper sides are 

 green, smooth, and even ; as well as by the beautiful rose-co- 

 \oured Jlowers, whose mouth is surrounded with a notched yellow 

 glandular border, which caused Haller to make this plant an 

 Aretia, such glands forming one of the chief characters of that 

 genus. They are however more remarkable and converging in 

 its genuine species. 



5. P. scotica. Scottish Primrose. 



Leaves finely toothed, even ; powdery on both sides. Limb 

 of the corolla flat ; mouth with a notched border. Stigma 

 five-cleft. 



P. scotica. Hook. Lond. t. 133. 



P. stricta. FL Dan. t. 1385 ? 



In the north of Scotland ; the soil or situation not recorded. 



Found by Mr. Gibb of Inverness, on Holborn Head, near Thurso 

 in Caithness, abundantly, also in the way from Thurso to Dun- 

 beath. Hooker. 



Perennial. July. 



Akin to P. farinosa, but the mealiness is said to be yellower, ex- 

 isting, more or less, on both surfaces of the leaves. Limb of the 

 corolla violet; its mouth not more glandular than my specimens 

 of the last. But the calyx is rather more tumid, and the 5- 

 notched stigma, accompanied by a furrowed style, appears to con- 

 stitute a sound specific character. The stamens being situated 

 a little lower in the tube is of no consequence. The variable- 

 ness of that circumstance is well known to cultivators of the 

 Polyanthus. Whether this be the P. stricta of FL Dan., can 

 only be ascertained by specimens, which I have not seen of 

 either. It is much to be wished that specific names, taken from 

 particular countries, perpetually introduced by gardeners, were 

 not sanctioned by superior authorities. It will be fortunate if 

 stricta, the older name, should prove to belong to this species. 



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