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PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Primula. 269 



adopted by Linnaeus (through C. Bauhin) for his E. italicum, 

 and he having thence been led to mark that species as a native 

 of England, it has been received into all our Floras, and pub- 

 lished by Mr. Dickson in his Hort. Sicc.fasc, 14. 18, and also in 

 Engl. Bot. D. 29. <. 1 08 1 , from garden specimens, for the Lycopsis 

 of Ray, found plentifully, as he reports, in Jersey. The Jersey 

 plant however, as far as I have been able to learn, has blue 

 Jlowers 5 whereas E. italicum is alwaj'S white. Ray cites the 

 figure of Dodonaeus, which is from the very same block with 

 Lobel's and Gerarde's, as a good representation of his plant. 

 Our E. vulgare may frequently be found very nearly aUvSwering 

 to this figure, nor have I ever been able to detect a second 

 species in England, whatever may be found in Jersey ; on which 

 subject some authentic information, by means of specimens or 

 seeds, is very desirable. Possibly E. plantaginenm, Fl. Grcec. 

 t. 179, having lateral ribs to its leaves, like the above wooden 

 cut, may be the plant of Ray and Dodoneeus, 



97. PRIMULA. Primrose, and Cowslip. 



Linn. Gen. 80. Juss. 96. El. Br. 222. Tourn. t. 47. Lam. t. 98. 

 Gcertn. f.50. 



Nat. Ord. Precice. Linn. 21. Lysimacliicc. Juss. 34. Primiir- 

 lacece. Br. Pr. 427. A^. 98 the same, also 100 — 102. 

 See Grammar, 95. 



[There appears little reason for Ventenat's change of the 

 original name of this order to Primulaccce. Mr. Brown, 

 who adopts the latter, adds the following characters to 

 those of Jussieu, given m the Grammar. 



Calyx in 5, rarely 4, segments, regular, permanent. Corolla 

 regular; limb in 5, rarely 4, divisions. Stigma capitate. 

 Capsule with parallel, not imbricated or inflexed, valves. 

 Seeds peltate, furnished with albumen, in which is lodged 

 the embryo, parallel to the scar ; radicle indeterminate in 

 direction. Herbs, with mostly opposite, sometimes whorl- 

 ed, sometimes scattered, leaves. See the characters of the 

 Le7itibula7-i(Z, an order separated from this, p. 27.] 



Primula. 

 Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, tubular, with 5 angles and 5 teeth, regu- 

 lai', erect, permanent. Cor. of 1 petal, salver-shaped; tube 

 cylindrical, as long as the calyx, or longer; limb spreading, 

 in 5, rather deep, inversely heart-shaped, obtuse segments ; 

 throat concave, hemispherical, pervious. Filam. in the 

 throat, very short, opposite to the segments of the limb. 

 Anth. pointed, erect, converging, not prominent. Germ. 

 globular. Style thread-shaped, the length of the calyx. 



