division, which separate it into five (sometimes six) heart-like seg- 

 ments: and the edging should resemble a bright gold lace, bold, 

 clear and distinct, and so nearly of the same colour as the eye and 

 stripes, as scarcely to be distinguished from it. 



The second species has the leaves contracted towards the middle, 

 almost as in the Cowslip: the scapes few, erect, longer than the 

 leaves, many-flowered : the flowers umbelled, pedicelled, the outer 

 ones generally nodding; like those of the Primrose in form and 

 colour, but smaller. From which it is evidently distinguished by its 

 many-flowered scape; as it is from the cowslip by the flat border of 

 the corolla. It is found in the woods and other places in this 

 country, flowering in April and Ma}'. 



Martyn remarks that if it be a variety, it is rather of the former 

 than the latter. And Dr. Smith rather inclines to think that it is 

 a hybrid production, or mule from a Primrose impregnated by a 

 Cowslip. 



It varies much in the colour of the flowers, but the chief are 

 purple-flowered, red-flowered, gold-coloured, orange-coloured, with 

 various shades of each. 



The third has a root like that of the Primrose, but smelling more 

 powerfully of anise: the leaves obovate-oblong, contracted suddenly 

 towards the middle, or rather ovate with the petiole winged, shorter 

 than those of the Primrose by nearly one-half, fuller at the edge, 

 which is somewhat folded as well as notched, stronger, of a deeper 

 green, not running so taper at the base, covered on the under side 

 with softer and shorter hair: the petioles smoother, whitish with 

 scarcely any red in them: the scapes few, three or four times longer 

 than the leaves, round, upright, pale, villose: the involucre at the 

 base of the umbel, surrounding the peduncles, consisting of many, 

 very small, concave, pale, acuminate leaflets: the flowers in an 

 umbel, unequally pedicelled, hanging down, generally to one side, 

 full yellow with an orange-coloured blotch at the base of each seg- 

 ment, contracted about the middle of the tube, where the stamens 

 are inserted, paler underneath, very fragrant. It is a native of 



Europe, flowering in April and May. 



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