26o A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS 



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York to No. Carolina, and westward. See also No. 624. 

 801. Primrose. Primula farinosa. (Primulaceae.) A slender 

 perennial herb with a rosette of basal leaves, and a long- 

 stalked cluster of pinkish or lilac flowers with a yellow eye. 

 Leaves green above, mealy beneath, 1-4 in. long, narrowed 

 to a stalk-like base, finely but bluntly toothed. Stalk of the 

 flower cluster 8-12 in. high. Corolla tubular, its 5 spreading 

 lobes notched. Fruit a dry pod. On cliffs and rocky shores. 

 Greenland to Maine and Quebec, west to northern Michigan 

 and Minnesota. August. Fig. 801. A related species, P. mis- 

 tassinica, with leaves green both sides, is found from New- 

 foundland to central New York, west to Michigan and Sas- 

 katchewan. See also No. 466. 



802. Leaves, none, or wanting at flowering time, and rarely 

 seen, or reduced to tiny scales. 



Plants of wet, sandy shores, or of meadows or bogs 

 Flowers showy, yellow conspicuous 



Flower about % in. wide, not spurred 



Bladderwort no. 803 



Flowers about ^ in. wide, obviously spurred 



Bladderwort no. 804 



Flowers greenish-yellow, inconspicuous, and very small 



Screw-stem no. 805 



Plants of dry woods 



