Plex.cor. 21. PRIMULA CE^. 62. Primula. S03 



4'. Primula P farinosa. Mealy primrose. 



Leaves ovate oblong, rather crenate, bald, beneath pow- 

 dery ; fascicles many-flowered ; ^ozfer^ spreading; limb oi 

 the corolla flat. 



Auricula ursi, q. Verbasculum lunbellatum Alpinum minus C. Bauhini, 

 Rail Syn. 285, 1. 



Primula veris flore rubro, Ger. em. 783, 1 . 

 Paralysis minor flore rubro. Park. Par. 246. 

 Primula farinosa, Lin. S. P. 205. 

 Bird's eye. 



Mountain bogs ; perennial ; June and July. 



Leaves light green, smooth, veined beneath ; scape up- 

 right ; limb of the corolla small, red, paler beneath ; lobes 

 linear, nicked ; mouth of the tube glandular. 



X. 62. CYCLAMEN. Theophrastus. Sow-bread, 



Calyx 5-cut; corolla rather rotate; tube short; mouth 

 prominent ; limb 5-parted, reflex ; stamens 5 ; filaments 

 very short; anthers approximating; stigma pointed; cap- 

 sule fleshy, globose, 5-valved. — Root fibrous; comlus 

 roundish; leaves radical, veiny, often spotted; petioles 

 long, flexuous; scape l-^ov^eved; flowers drooping, white 

 or purplish ; fruit twists up spirally, and buries itself in 

 the ground. 



Cyclamen vernum. Spring sowh'ead. 



Leaves heartshape, angular, edge toothed. 



Cyclamen vernum, Ger. em. 843, 3. 

 Cyclamen eurojiaeum, Smith Fl. Brit. 224. 

 Cyclamen hederasfolium. Ait. Hort. Kck. 196. 



Woods and hedges ; perennial ; April. 

 Combus large; leaves bald, spotted and waved with white, 

 beneath purplish ; lobes of the corolla twisted. 



Fam.V. 22. RHINANTHACEiE. De Candolle. Pedi- 



culares. Jussieu. 

 Calyx divided, often tubulai-, persisting; corolla hypo- 

 gynous, irregular, often lipped ; stamens 2 or 4, inserted 

 on the corolla, 2 often shorter than the others ; anthers often 

 2-bristled at the base; oi'fl??/ free, 2-celled ; 5/^/e simple; 

 capsule 2-valved, valves joined together by the central pla- 

 centarium ; perisperm fleshy ; corculum straight ; cotyledons 

 half round; plumula inconspicuous.-^— HerZ? often becomes 

 black by drying ; leaves opposite or alternate ; Jlowers often 

 spiked ; bractea 1 to each flower. 



