52 PEXTANDRIA MONOGYXIA. Menyanthes. 



PRI'MULA.' Primrose and Cowslip/ 



P. vulgaris. Common Primrose. Leaves inversely egg- 

 shaped, oblong, toothed, wrinkled. Stalks single- 

 flowered. Limb of the corolla flat. E. B. 4. P. acau- 

 lis. C. 6. 16. Sb. 72. P. veris minor. G. E. 

 781. 

 Groves, thickets, hedges. 

 Per. March. 



Ls. directly from the root. Fl. large, sulphur-coloured ; darker 

 radiating spot in the middle, slightly sweet-scented. 

 Of the cultivated varieties, that with double sulphur-coloured 

 flowers very elegant. Dried roots strongly emetic, drachm and 

 half, a dose. Ls. of this and the Cowslip food for silk worms. 

 Linneeus supposed the Primrose, Oxlip, and Cowslip var. of each 

 other : this seems proved recentty. See Trails. Horticultur . So- 

 ciety, vol. iv. and Hensloiv in Loud. Mag. Nat. Hist. Sept. 1830. 

 The fl. stalks in reality constitute an umbel, at the base. 



P. eldtior. Oxlip^ P. Leaves toothed, wrinkled, con- 

 tracted towards the middle. Stalk many flowered. 

 Limb of the corolla flat. E. B. 513. P. pratensis 

 inodorata lutea. G. E. 780. 2. 



Woods, thickets, pastures. Headington Wick Copse. Stow Wood. 



Southleigh. SL. 

 Per. April. 

 FL sweet-scented, umbellated, outer ones drooping, less expanded 



limb than in Pr. vulgaris ; larger, paler than in the (P. veris) 



Cowshp. 



P. veris. Common Coivslip. Leaves toothed, wrinkled, 

 contracted towards the middle. Stalk many-flowered. 

 Limb of the corolla concave. E. B. 5. P. officinalis. 

 C. 6. 15. P. veris major. G. E. 780. 



Meadows, pastures, chiefly on clay, or chalk. Sm. 



Per. April. 



Fl. all drooping, umbellated, deep yellow, with five orange spots, 



sweet-scented. 



Blossoms from them a pleasant, soporific wine. Ls. a pot-herb, 

 and in salads. Root smells like anise. 



MENYANTHES. Buckbean. 



M. trifolidta. Common B. or Bog-bean. Marsh Tre- 

 foil. Leaves in threes. Disk of the Corolla densely 



' i. e prime or early rose. ^ Cu-slippe. Ang. Sax. a plant not eaten 



by cows. ^ Oxan slippan. Ang-. Sax. 



