Trimula. jentandria mojjocynia. 21 



late, acute, sometimes obtuse, erect laciuise — Tube of the corolla a 

 little longer than the calyx, widening at the top into the funnel- 

 shaped throat. — Border equalling the tube, spreading, of five round 

 oval segments, fringed with linear long teeth ; sometimes perfectly 

 entire. — Anthers within the mouth of the tube. — Style very short. — 

 Stigma retuse. — N. W. 



5. P. reticulata, Wall. 



Leaves oblong, obtuse, cordate, smooth, sharply and unequally 

 toothed, rugose, veined ; on long, slender petioles ; scapes very long ; 

 umbels slightly mealy, erect, with lanceolate, unequal, sub-foliaceous 

 involucels, almost equalling the peduncles; calyx tubular, five-keel- 

 ed, with linear-lanceolate, plicated, recurved lacinia, about half the 

 length of the tube; border of the corolla flat, consisting of five bilo- 

 bate undulated segments. 



Much like the preceding in stature, but more slender. — Root 

 whitish. — Leaves oblong, ovate, cordate, sometimes with unequal 

 lobes, obtuse, rugose and smooth above, slightly pubescent with 

 numerous approximate nerves and reticulated veins below, without 

 any meal; margins unequally and sharply dentate; from three to four 

 inches long. V elides very slender, erect, three or four times longer 

 than the leaves. Scape slender, from twelve to eighteen inches 

 high, smooth, round. — U/ubel spreading, erect, with yellow flowers; 

 the outermost noddiii g. — Involucre consisting of lanceolate sub- 

 foliaceous leaflets, varuug i;i length, but mostly equalling the pe- 

 duncles, and like them and thecalvces thinly bestrewed with meal. — ■ 

 Calyx oblong, with five angles, about half of the leugth of the tube, 

 with carinated, folded, acute, recurved lacnrs? — Tube of trke coroll^ 

 cylindiic ; mouth open, naked ; limb flat, with five obovate, slightly 

 two-lobed, undulated segments. — Anthers below the mouth. 



Obs. This as well as the preceding have some resemblance to 

 some of our Europe Cowslips, but they differ from them all, as 

 well as from those recorded in the new edition of Svstema Vegcta- 

 bilium.— N. W. 



