138 ENGLISH BOTANY, 



SPECIES IV.-PRIMU LA PARINOSA. 



Plate MCXXXIV. 



Beioh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MXCII. Figs. 1, 2, and 3. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 623. 



Leaves oblanceolate or obovate, insensibly attenuated into winged 

 petioles, obtuse or subobtuse, erose-denticulate, nearly smooth above, 

 more or less thickly covered with yellowish -white meal beneath, espe- 

 cially when young. Umbel raised on a scape (very rarely sessile), 

 pedicels unequal, some longer and others shorter than the calyx 

 (except in the scapeless forms), erect; bracts of the involucre saccate 

 at the base. Calyx oblong -campanulate; segments two-thirds of the 

 length of the tube, oblong, slightly attenuated towards the apex, sub- 

 obtuse. Tube of the corolla very little longer than the calyx-teeth ; 

 limb wider across than the length of the tube, rotate, spreading; 

 segments wedgeshaped-obovate, deeply obcordate, not contiguous, flat. 

 Capsule oblong-cyliudrical, nearly twice as long as the calyx. Flowers 

 dimorphous. 



In bogs and damp pastures. Rare or local. In England it occurs 

 in Lancashire, north Yorkshire, Dui-ham, Northumberland, West- 

 moreland, and Cumberland. In Scotland it is known to grow only at 

 Bridgehouse, near West Lmton, on the south side of the Pentland 

 Hills, about eighteen miles from Edinburgh. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer. 



Leaves in a rosette, 1 to 4 inches long, the outer ones broader and 

 blunter. Scape 3 to 15 inches high, rarely absent. Flowers about 

 1 to f inch across, the limb flat, lilac-purple, with a yellow eye sur- 

 i-ounded by a white line, the throat slightly contracted by bosses, the 

 tube not above one-fourth longer than the calyx-teeth. Capsule |- inch 

 long, reddish at the apex. Plant glabrous, Avith the underside of the 

 leaves, upper j^art of the scape, bracts, pedicels, and calyx sprinkled 

 Avith yellowish-white meal; the meal easily rubbed off, and soon 

 entirely disappearing from the upper surface of the leaves. Calyx 

 segments generally with a few dark glandular specks. 



BirxVs eye Primrose. 

 French, Primevere farineiise. German, mehlujer Eimmelschliissel. 



SPECIES v.— P RIMULA SCOTICA. Hool: 



Plate MCXXXV. 



P. farluosa, var. Duhij in B.C. Prod. Vol. VIII. p. 44. Bcnth. Handbk. Brit. Bot. 

 ed. ii. p. 302. 



Leaves oval or oblong-oval, attenuated towards the base into winged 



