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The varieties are ihe Common Single Yellow Cowslip: Double 

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



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

 proaehing 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 perennial root, somewhat praemorse, 

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

 leaves obovate-lanceolate, bright green, smooth and even, thickish, 

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

 powdered with white meal: the scape a hand's-breadth 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 upright umbel, having 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 Curtis, 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 different shades of purple, and have been found 

 entirely while. 



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: they are not mealy, the under side 

 being as green as the upper, and the}' 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 



