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by standing in the sun. At the end of four or five weeks, 

 when the young plants will be all come up, they must have, 

 gradually, more air, and in a fortnight or three weeks the 

 boxes should be taken out of the frame, and placed in a warm 

 situation, though not too much exposed to the sun, till towards 

 the end of April ; when they may be removed to a cooler 

 aspect, where they can receive the sun only till nine o'clock; 

 and in May they should be placed in the most cool and airy 

 part of the garden ; still not neglecting to keep the earth 

 moderately moist, and to protect them from violent rains. 

 As soon as any of the plants shew six leaves, transplant them 

 into other boxes, an inch and half or two inches asunder; 

 and when they are grown so as to touch each other, trans- 

 plant them a second time, into larger boxes, at the distance 

 of three or four inches, or into small pots, where they may 

 remain till they blow, when the very good ones should be 

 marked, and the bad destroyed. As soon as the bloom is 

 over, let those that are marked be planted separately in pots, 

 and taken care of till they blow again, when their merits may 

 be more accurately ascertained. A great proportion of these 

 seedlings will be plain -coloured, technically self, and of no 

 value but as common border flowers, unless they have good 

 properties in other respects, or are singularly beautiful or 

 brilliant in their colours. 



14. Primula Gigantea ; Tall Primrose. Leaves rhomb- 

 ovate, serrate, smooth; stem few-flowered, very tall. It 

 varies with the stem only eighteen inches high, and is a 

 native of Siberia. 



15. Primula Minima; Dwarf Primrose. Leaves quite 

 smooth and shining, wedge-shaped, sharply serrate at the top 

 only; scape few-flowered, (one or two flowered.) Root round, 

 white within, blackish without, putting out very long whitish 

 fibres horizontally, forming very large thick tufts, loaded with 

 abundance of flowers ; corolla purple, according to Krocher 

 and Jacquin. Willdenow observes, that it dyes of a violet co- 

 lour. It flowers from June to September. Native of Mount 

 St. Gothard, Schneeberg, and other mountains of Austria. 



16. Primula Integrifolia; Entire-leaved Primrose. Leaves 

 quite entire, elliptic, subcrenate, cartilaginous at the edges; 

 umbel erect; calices with long tubes and very blunt. This 

 in habit and stature generally resembles the thirteenth species. 

 It is distinguished from the next species, by having the leaves 

 cartilaginous at the edge, scarce apparently crenulate or ciliate 

 when examined with a magnifier, and the calix tubular. In 

 gardens, where it flourishes very well, it flowers in April and 

 May. Native of the Swiss, Pyreuean, Austrian, Styrian, and 

 Carniolian mountains. 



17. Primula Carniolica; Carniolian Primrose. Leaves 

 quite entire, elliptic; umbel erect; calices acute, very short. 

 Native of Carniola. 



18. Primula Sinmarchica; Norwegian Primrose. Leaves 

 quite entire, ovate, on long petioles ; umbel few-flowered, erect; 

 corolla funnel-form. Native of the mountains of Norway. 



19. Primula Viscosa ; Viscid Primrose. Leaves ovate, 

 quite entire, villose, viscid; umbel erect; corollas salver- 

 form. Root thick, at first dusky, then white, filiform ; flowers 

 pale blue. Native of the mountains of Piedmont, on rocks 

 about the baths of Valderia. 



20. Primula Sibirica; Siberian Primrose. Leaves quite 

 entire, ovate, on long petioles; umbel few-flowered, nodding; 

 corolla salver-form. Native of Siberia, in moist meadows, 

 from the river Obo to beyond Lake Baikal. 



21. Primula Mistassinica. Plant glabrous; leaves oval- 

 spatulate, subdentate ; scape elongated ; umbels with few 

 flowers; limb of the corolla reflex; segments cuneate-oblong, 

 obtusely bifid; capsules oblong. Grows on Lake Mistassins, 



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or in Hudson's Bay. This is the only North American spe- 

 cies noticed by Pursh. 



Prince's Feather. See Amaranthus Hypochondriacus. 



Prinos; a genus of the class Hexandria, order Monogynia. 

 GENERIC CHAKACTEH. Calix: perianth one-leafed, 

 half six-cleft, flat, very small, permanent. Corolla: one- 

 petalled, wheel-shaped; tube none; border six-parted, flat; 

 segments ovate. Stamina: filamenta six, awl-shaped, erect, 

 shorter than the corolla; antheree oblong, blunt. Pistil: 

 germen ovate, ending in a style shorter than the stamina, and 

 an obtuse stigma. Pericarp: berry roundish, six-celled, 

 much larger than the calix. Seeds: solitary, bony, obtuse, 

 convex on one side, angular on the other. Observe. It dif- 

 fers from Ilex, chiefly in the number. Sometimes it excludes 

 one-sixth part in the fructification. ESSENTIAL CHAUAC- 

 TER. Cafe: six-cleft. Corolla: one-petalled, wheel-shaped. 

 Berry : six-seeded. The species are, 



1 . Prinos Verticillata ; Deciduous Winter Berry. Leaves 

 lanceolate, ovate, pubescent underneath, serrate on the whole 

 margin ; peduncles many-flowered. It rises with a shrubby 

 stalk to the height of eight or ten feet, sending out many 

 branches from the sides the whole length ; leaves alternate, on 

 short stalks, about three inches long, and one broad; flowers 

 solitary, or two or three together at the base of the leaf-stalks, 

 small, white; berries red or crimson, at length purple, larger 

 than those of the Holly. It flowers in July, and the seeds 

 ripen in the winter. Native of Virginia. This, and the next, 

 are propagated by seeds, sown soon after they are ripe, upon 

 a bed of light earth, covering them about half an inch with 

 the same sort of earth. The seeds which are so soon put into 

 the ground, will many of them come up the following spring; 

 whereas, those which are kept longer out of the ground, will 

 remain a whole year before the plants will appear, in the same 

 manner as the Holly, Hawthorn, and some others. When the 

 young plants come up, they may be treated in the same man- 

 ner as has been directed for the American Hawthorns, these 

 being full as hardy; but they delight in a moist soil, and a 

 shady situation. In hot land they make little progress, and 

 rarely produce any fruit. 



2. Prinos Glabra ; Evergreen Winter Berry. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, bluntish, smooth on botli sides, serrate at the tip. 

 It is not so tall as the preceding; the leaves also are shorter, 

 and serrate at their points only. Berries round, purplish, or 

 black, solitary, on long stalks, called ink-berries in Jersey. 

 Native of Canada. 



3. Prinos Lucida. Leaves elliptic, acuminate, even, sub- 

 serrate at the tip. It flowers in J uly. This is the Ilex Cana- 

 densis of Michaux. 



4. Prinos Dioicus; Dicecious Winter Berry. Leaves oblong- 

 ovate, subserrate, smooth, coriaceous; peduncles axillary, one 

 or three flowered ; flowers dioecious, tetrandrous. Found in 

 the island of Montserrat. 



5. Prinos Nitidus ; Shining Winter Berry. Leaves oblong- 

 ovate, serrate, shining, membranaceous ; peduncles axillary, 

 one-flowered ; flowers tetrandrous. It is allied to the prn- 

 ceding, but differs in having slenderer branches, brown, not 

 whitish. Fou-nd in Montserrat. 



6. Prinos Montana. Leaves ovate, serrate, shining on 

 both sides; trunk twenty or thirty feet high, with an even 

 brown bark; branches subdivided, almost upright, round, 

 smooth. Native of Jamaica, on coppices in the highest 

 mountains. 



7. Prinos Sideroxyloides. Leaves roundish, quite entire. 

 The wood of this tree is hard. Native of the Caribbee 

 Islands, St. Christopher's, and Montserrat. 



8. Prinos Ambiguus. Leaves deciduous, oval, ac p .uninatc 

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