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The goat"s beard, prompt his praise to liail, 

 With broad eNpanded disk, in veil, 

 Close mantling, wraps its yellow head, 

 And goes as peasants say to bed. 



It is used like Salsify, and has a loii^ root like a parsiii]), w iili a niild, 

 sweet tlavtnir. It is tlressed like Asjiara^us, orow 11 like the earrot, 

 and cultivated in I-"rance and Ciermany, ln:l seldom in llriiain. 



Essential Spkcii ic Ciiaractkrs: — 



185. TraoopOi^oit />rah'iisi\ L. — Stem erect, branched, glaucous, 

 leaves clasping, erect, lont^", lanceolate, channelled, simple, alternate, 

 flowerheads yellow, inxolucre as Imi^- as or shorter than the llower, 

 rtorets ligulate, perfect, pappus featherx, anthers yellow. 



Cowslip ( Primula veris, L.) 



The Cowslip ranges farther east than the Primrose in the N. 

 Temperate Zone, where it is found in Europe, Siberia, W. Asia, 

 N. Africa, but, like it. is unknown so far in early deposits. 



In Great Britain it is found in the Peninsula pro\inces, in the 

 Channel, Thames, Anglia. cind .Se\ern provinces, in .S. Wales it does 

 not occur in Radnor or Cardigan, in N. Wales not in Montgomery 

 or Merioneth, but throughout the Trent and Mersey provinces, except 

 Mid Lancashire, and in the H umber, Tyne. Lakes provinces generally. 

 In the E. Lowlands it is general except in Wigtown, and in the 

 W. Lowlands except in Peebles and Selkirk, in the .S. Highlands 

 except in Stirling, S. Perth, Elgin. Plasterness, and in the W. High- 

 lands in Westerness, Main Argylc, Dumbarton, and in W. Sutherland, 

 and Caithness. In Northumberland it grows at 1600 ft. 



There is no more common jjlant in most lowland counties of Great 

 Britain in early spring than the Cowslip, which dots the meadows, 

 fields, and upland pastures with its yellow flowers as uniformly as the 

 Lady's Smock does the moister meadows and marshes. It alstj grows 

 under hedgerows in the shade, in copses, and woodlands, when it is 

 taller and finer in flower and foliage. 



The general habit of the Cowslip is like that of the Primrose, but 

 the scape bears more than one flower. It is a typical rosette plant. 



The radical lea\es are heart-shaped to egg-shaped, narrowed at 

 the base, running down the stalk, wrinkled, with rounded teeth, shorter 

 than those of the Primrose, hairy beneath. 



The flowers are in umbels, funnel-shaped, drooping, yellow, with 

 orange dots. The calyx is bell-shaped with short egg-shaped teeth. 



