PRIMROSE FAMILY 



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tube; staintiis 5, ei)i[}etalous, included either in the tliroat'of the 

 corolla-tube, or, on other plants, half-way down it ; style short in 

 the former case, long in the latter: capsule 5-valved with 10 teeth. 

 This lieteroslyle is connected with insect-pullination, the short- 



fRIMULA \-ULGARr3 (Pri/in oSc). 



Styled form having its stigma dusted with pollqn from the similarly- 

 situated anthers of a long-styled plant, and v'ice versa. (Xame a 

 diminutive from the Latin primus, first, from the early flowering 

 of many species.) 



I. P. vulgaris (Primrose). — Among the most welcome of spring 



