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The floating branches, extending from 6 inches to a foot, bear 

 numerous hair-like much divided leaves, to which are attached a 

 multitude of little curved air-bladders ; the flower-stalk rises 

 upright a few inches out of the water, and bears a loose cluster 

 of handsome alternate yellow flowers, the flower-stalks and calyx 

 being tinged purple. Stover canal-head. Bovey Heath. Ponds 

 between Teignbridge and Kingsteignton, Powderham marshes, 

 FL D. (E. B. t. 253.) P. vi. vn. U. intermedia, with some 

 of the branches bearing leaves without vesicles, is considered 

 by Bentham to be merely a barren form of U. minor. The 

 * Flora Devoniensis' gives as its habitat a pool between Teign,- 

 bridge and Kingsteignton. (E. B. t. 2489 and 254.) 



OED. LXVI. PKIMULACEJE. 

 PRIMULA. PRIMROSE, OXLIP, COWSLIP, 



1. P. vnlgaris (common Primrose.) In woods, pastures, and 

 on hedge-banks. Leaves more or less hairy, ovate or oblong, 

 large, slightly toothed and much wrinkled, of a pale fresh green ; 

 flower-stalks, arising apparently single, but really from a common 

 stalk so short as to be concealed by the leaves, bear each a ter- 

 minal, pale yellow flower, with a deeply 5-lobed spreading co- 

 rolla. Abundant in all our lanes and hedges. (E. B. t. 4.) P. 

 IV. V. 



2. P. veris (common Cowslip.) In meadows and pastures. 

 Leaves like the last but not hairy ; flower-stalks bearing an um- 

 bel of flowers ; corolla deeper yellow and much smaller than that 

 of the Primrose, its segments not so widely spread. Very fre- 

 quent. Warberry Hill. Cockington lanes. Shiphay, Ansti's 

 Cove, etc. (E. B. t. 5.) P. iv. v. 



3. P. elatior (Oxlip.) Similar situations to the last. Leaves 

 ovate, toothed and contracted below. Flower-stalk bearing a 

 many-flowered umbel ; segments of the corolla more dilated than 

 those of the Cowslip, and having more the appearance of the 

 Primrose ; outer flowers of the umbel usually drooping. Not so 

 frequent as the last. New walks at Ansti's Cove. (E. B. t. 513.) 

 P. iv. v. 



GLAUX. SEA MILKWORT. 



G. maritima (sea M. t or UacTc Saltwort) On seashores 

 and in salt-jnarghes, Plant from 2 to 6 inches highj stem 



