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The varieties are the Common Single Yellow Cowslip: Double 

 Yellow Cowslip: Scarlet Cowslip: and Hose, and Hose Cowslip. 



The fragrant flowers ot" these plants make a pleasant wine, ap- 

 proaching in flavour to the muscadel wines of the south of France. 

 It is commonly supposed to possess a somniferous quality. 



The fourth species has a [)erciinial root, somewhat prtiemorse, 

 with numerous, long, perpendicular fibres, and sweet-scented: the 

 leaves obovate-lanceolate, bright green, smoc^li and even, thickish, 

 here and there turned back on the edges, underneath veined and 

 powdered with while meal: the scape a iiand's-bieadth or span in 

 height, far exceeding the leaves, round, upright, stiff and straight, 

 of a pale green colour and mealy: the flowers sweet-scented, of a 

 purple yellow colour, in an upriglit undid, ha\ing at its base a 

 many-leaved involucre, each leaflet of which is awl-shaped, and 

 placed at the base of each peduncle. It is an elegant plant; is a 

 native of many parts of Europe, flowering in July and August. 



It varies in the size of the plant, having been found wild a foot 

 and half in height, and in the cultivated plant a tendency to be- 

 come viviparous, has been observed by Cvnlis, or to produce one or 

 more tufts of leaves among the flowers of the umbel. In its wild 

 state it seeds readily, and frequently when cultivated: the flowers 

 also vary with ditt'eient shades of purple, and have been found 

 entirely white. 



The fifth bears a great affinity to the fourth, but the leaves differ 

 in form, colour, and mode of growth; when fully grown being twice 

 the length of those of the other: the}' are not mealy, the under side 

 being as green as the upper, and they have a greater tendency to 

 grow upright: the scape is shorter and thicker; the flowers form a 

 similar umbel, but each is smaller, and in point of colour much less 

 brilliant. Upon the whole, though superior in size, it is inferior to 

 that in beauty. It flowers early in May. 



The sixth species, in the wrinkled appearance of its foliage, 

 approaches the first sort; whilst in its inflorescence, the colour of 

 its flowers, and solitary scape, which rises to an unusual height, it 

 bears an affinity to the fourth. In the winter it loses the leaves 



