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shrub, with alternate ovate entire leaves that are dark green 

 above and white beneath and have revolute margins. It is 

 very delicately formed and resembles a slender trailing vine 

 far more than a shrub, which latter word we are accustomed 

 by common usage to apply only to tall, stout, or bushy 

 plants. The four or five tiny, narrow, pink divisions of 

 the nodding corolla are spread wide open and reveal the 

 anthers converging into a cone, which is extremely promi- 

 nent when the flower is expanded. The fruit is a round 

 red juicy acid many-seeded berry. This Cranberry grows 

 chiefly in marshy places and swamps, also along the margins 

 of lakes and pools. 



BIRD'S EYE PRIMROSE ' 



Primula farinosa. Primrose Family 



Leaves: oblong, obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, tapering 

 into petioles, the margins crenulate. Flowers: umbellate; bracts of the 

 involucre acute ; calyx-lobes acute, often mealy ; corolla salver- form, five- 

 cleft ; stamens five included filaments ; anthers very short, oblong, obtuse. 



A tall species of Primrose, with pink, lilac, or very occa- 

 sionally white flowers, which grow in a cluster at the top 

 of the long stalks and are salver-shaped ; that is to say, the 

 divisions of the corolla spread out flat at the top of the 

 tube and disclose a yellow eye with five stamens forming 

 a dark " pupil " in the centre of it. Hence the name of 

 Bird's Eye. The leaves are long-shaped, being usually 

 mealy white beneath, as denoted in the term farinosa, and 

 all grow in a tuft at the base of the plant, surrounding the 

 long bare flower-stalk, on the top of which a few small 

 bracts will be found just below the blossoms. 



Primula Maccalliana, or Dwarf Canada Primrose, is sim- 

 ilar to the preceding species, but much smaller, growing only 

 to an average height of four inches, whereas P. farinosa is 





