94 PENTANDRIA — MONOGYNIA. \_Primula. 



shaped ant^ular finely toothed their ribs and footstalks rough- 

 ish. E. FL V. i. p. 273. — C. EuropcEum, E. Bot. t. 548. 



On a bank at Bramfield, Suttblk. Sandhurst Green and Goudhurst, 



Ke.it. FL April. If Leaves springing from the top of the large, 



tuberous root. Cor. white or flesli-coloured. Scapes spirally twisted 

 after flowering-, so as to bury tlie seed-vessels in the earth. 



14. PitfiMULA. Linn. Primrose. 



1. P. vulgaris, Huds. (common Primrose); leaves toothed 

 wrinkled, scape single-flowered, limb of the corolla flat. E. Bot. 

 t. 4 P. veris, y. ucaulis, Linn. 



Woods, hedge-banks and pastures, abundant. Fl. April, May? and 

 till June on the mountains of Scotland. 1]!. — If the scapes are traced 

 to their very base, they will be fotnid to spring from one common point, 

 and to constitute a sessile lanbel. The Rev. G. E. Smith finds the 

 flowers sometimes with styliferous filaments. 



2. P. eldlior, With. (Oxiip Primrose); leaves toothed wrink- 

 led contracted below the middle, scape umbellate, limb of the 

 corolla flat, E. Bot. t. 513. — P. veris, /3. elalior, Linn. 



Woods and thickets, not common ; still rarer in Scotland. About 

 Dublin. FL Apr. May. If. — Mr Wilson finds specimens of this with 

 some scapes bearing solitary and others umbellate _/?oi<;£rs ; so that 

 whatever may be thought of the following species, this cannot be con- 

 sidered really distinct from P. acaulis. 



3. P. veris, L. (common Cowslip or Paiffle); leaves toothed 

 wrinkled contracted below the middle, scape umbellate, caly- 

 cine teeth obtuse, limb of the corolla concave. E. Bot. t. 5. — 

 p. veris, a. officinalis, Henslow. 



Meadows and pastures, frequent in a clayey soil in England : very 

 rare in Scotland. Near Edinburgh. Introduced about Glasgow. FL 

 Apr. May. If. — Various are the opinions respecting the above 3 Pri- 

 mulas, as to the permanence of their specific characters. Professor 

 Henslow has seen them all produced from the same root : and thus, in 

 his useful little Catalogue of British Plants arranged according to the 

 Nat. Sgstcm, has reduced them to vars. of P. veris, as Linnseus had 

 done. Few j)lants, however, can be more constant to the characters 

 here laid down than these are, as generally seen growing in their wild 

 stations. They rarely are found intermixed, and in Scotland the two 

 last kinds are scarcely known. Some are of opinion that tli.e P. elatior 

 is a hybrid between the other two : but Mr H. F. Talbot found, upon 

 the summit of a high mountain, near the Lake of Tliun, in Switzerland, 

 P. elatior in abundance, while P. veris was confined to the base of the 

 hill, and P. vulgaris was not found within 30 miles of it. 



4. 'P.farinosa, L. (Bird's-eye Primrose); leaves obovato-lan- 

 ceolate mealy crenulated, calyx oblongo-ovate, limb of the co- 

 rolla plane its mouth obscurely glandular, the segments obcor- 

 date attenuated at the base distant " nearly as long as the tube." 

 E. BoL '. 6. 



Mountainous pastures in the North of England, especially Yorkshire, 

 not unfrequcnt. Very rare in Scotland ; only seen, I believe, south of 

 Edinburgh : the stations given in Fl- Scotica all belonging to the fol- 



