3^8 



PRIMULACE^ 



flowers, and almost too well known to need any description ; leaves 

 obovate, tapering downwards, wrinkled, hairy beneath, toothed ; 



PRIMULA v^Ris {Cowslip, Paigle). 



umbels usually with very short peduncles and long, pink, hairy 

 -pedicels ; flowers an inch or more across ; calyx with 5 longitudinal 

 plaits and acute teeth ; corolla of a pale yellow, or, as artists often 

 maintain, a delicate green, turning green in drying, or occasion- 



