PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Primula. i>71 



P. veris /3, elatior. Linn. Sp. PI. 204. Fl. Dan. w. 433. /.43^. 



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



P. vulgaris /3. llnd.s. 84. 



P. n. 609. Hull. Hist. V. 1.271. 



P. pratensis inodorata lutea. Raii Stjn. 284. 



Herba Paralysis. Camer. Epit. 404./. 2. Bncif. Herb. v. I. 97./ 



In woods, thickets, or pastures, rare. 



Perennial. Jpril. 



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

 this species differs from the preceding, and more agrees \\itli th^ 

 followmg. The foicers are sweet-scented, all umbellate, smaller 

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

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

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

 common species ; and having often, perhaps, been confounded 

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

 nature have become the more obscure. 



3. P. verL^. Common Cowslip. Paigle. '^ 



Leaves toothed, wrinkled, conti'acted towards the middle. 



Stalk many-flowered. Limb of the corolla concave. 

 P. veris. Linn. Sp. PL 204. mild. v. 1. 800. Huds. 84. Fl. Br 223 



Engl. But. V. \.t.5. Hook. Scot. 71. Camer. Lpit. 883. f 

 P. veris officinalis. FL Dan. n.434. L 433. Bull. Fr. t. \7\, 

 P. veris major. Raii Syn. 284. Ger. FZm. 780. f. 

 P. officinalis. Jacq.Misc.v.l.\o9. mth.234. CurL Lond. fa-c 6 



t.15. J " ' ' 



P. n. 61 0. HaU. 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 - their maro-in 

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

 umbels, with small partial bracteas, 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 res'ide. 

 These flowers make a i)leasant 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 llev. Dr. Abbot, with the cah/v 

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

 with the same part unaltered. 



