

PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Echium. 22$ 



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Clus. ii. l6i. Q-Ger. em. 802. 4-7. B. iii. $8$. 1-H. ox. 

 XI. 27 • 2, referred to by Linn, but the stamens are longer 

 than the bloss. and Clus. describes the bloss. as red. f 



Whole plant smaller, more slender, weak, and hairy than 

 E. <vulg. but the hairs softer, some of them rising from tubercles. 

 The tubercles hardly, if at all, discernible on the leaves ; though 

 they are on the stem, where they are intermixed with short hairs 

 not rising from tubercles. Calyx very unequal. Bloss. unequal, 

 smaller than those of E. <vulg. deep blue. Stamens always within 

 or just even with the blossom. Mr. Woodward, Hairs not 

 rising from tubercles. Bloss. not red on the first day of appear- 

 ance, as in B. *vulg. but uniformly of a pale blue. Murr* prod. 

 143# The English species of Echium, as enumerated by Ray 

 and Hudson, are not yet sufficiently ascertained. 



Banks and corn fields. Near Norwich, Woodward. Aug. 



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PRI'MULA. Bloss. tube cylindrical ; mouth open ; 



stem within the tube : caps. 1 -celled, cylin- 

 drical, many-seeded, opening with 10 teeth ; 

 summit a knob. 



P. Leaves wrinkled, toothed; border of the blossom flat, vulga'ris. 



Curt. ~S held. ) 1-FJ. dan. 194-£. bot. \-Walc.~Black<w.52 

 -Clus. i. 302. 1-ZW. 147* 3-Lob. obs. 305. 4-Ger. em. 

 781. 5*-Park. 535. l-H. ox. v. 24. 8 and §~P ark. par. 

 243. l-Col. phytob. 6. 1. 



It has a common stalk, but it is exceedingly 6hort, and is con- 

 cealed beneath the surface of the ground, so that the stalks which 

 support the flowers are only elongated little fruit-stalks. Linn. 

 This is sometimes but not always the case, as Mr. Aikin observed 

 to me, and Mr. Curtis tells us, that by cultivation it may be 

 brought to throw up a long common fruit-stalk like the Oxlip; 

 which countenances the idea of the latter being a variety of this. 

 Leaf-stalks when fully grown longer than the leaves. 



' Primula *veris acaulis. LlNN. Primula syhestris Scop. Pn- 

 nula vulgaris. Huds. Common Primrose. Woods, hedges, 



thickets, and heaths, [particularly in a clayey soil.] 



P. April, May 



Gerard reports that a dram and a half of the dried roots taken up 

 ln autumn, operates as a strong but safe emetic. Sheep and goats cat it. 

 CWs are not fond of it. Horses and swine refuse it. Liss. Silk worms 

 ^ay be fed with the leaves. Trans. o/Soc. of Arts, ii. />. 157- Both tins 

 and the Garden Polyanthus have roots which bear what the florists call 

 Pjn-eyed flowers and other roots bearing only rose-eyed flowers. In the 

 pm-eyed flower the pistil and its summit reach nearly to the mouth of the 

 Tu be, so that the anthers which are placed lower down are invisible, 



"whilst in the rose-eyed the anthers are uppermost. 



