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PRIMULACE.E 



flowers, and almost too well known to need any description ; leaves 

 obovate, tapering downwards, wrinkled, hairy beneath, toothed ; 



primula v£ris (Cowslip, Paigle\ 



umbels usually with very short peduncles and long, pink, hairy 

 pedicels; flowers an inch or more across; calyx with 5 longitudinal 

 plaits and acute teeth ; corolla of a pale yellow, or, as artists often 

 maintain, a delicate green, turning green in drying, or occasion- 



