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| , — Flewiers and curious Plants now in their Perfeétion: 
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I. PROLIFEROUS, OXLIP. 
April. if this and the fucceeding Chapter we treat of | gives; as the trivial of common Name of the April, 
~~ Varieties rais’d, by the Gardener’s Art; frorn | Oxlip, Primula elatior : this Kind, if dignify’d ee 
Pl. 30. “* Plants wild in our Pattures. | with a feparate Name, muft be call’d Primula 
i Fig.1. The Oxlip, itfelf, in the fimple State, is con- | elatior prolifera. 
fider’d by the: ftrict. Eye of Science but as a Wa- 
riety of the, Primrofe Kind: it appears indeed a 
mongrel Breed: between. the common Primrofe and 
the common Cowllip, the Primrofe Flowers ap- 
pearing clufter’d in it upon the Cowflip Stalk. 
We have already acquainted the Reader, that 
Ds confiders the Primrofe and Cowflip but 
as two States of the fame Plant; the Oxlip there- 
fore it is plain he muft rank with them under the 
Name of a Variety and ’tis 2 Luxuriance in the 
flowering of that. Plant we here lay before the | 
Reader ;, 
the Offspring of the cornmon Oxlip- 
Seed well manag’d. | 
The old Botanifts held the Primrofe an Cowt- 
: lip diftinét in Species a as Appearances and this Plant, 
in its wild and fimple State, a Species feparate 
from either. . 
ralyfis inodora aut vie odora, and Kechelonioe pra- 
| senfe, aut ‘Sylvaticum inodorum, 
_ They call’d it Paralyfis major, Pa- 
cious Variety of which. we treat in this Place, 
Se they calld it Paralyfi is flore geminata inodora. | 
ee The Name of the whole Kind in the LINNEAN 
Botany, iS, Primula foliis dentatis rupee ; and he 
‘Numb. XXX. 
In. the fpe- 
The Root 1s compos’d ef numerous fevheg 
Fibres, connected to a {mall Head. 
The Leaves rifé without Footftalks; and aré 
large and oblotig, confiderably btoad, and’ of a 
‘pale green’; whitifh on the under Side: they are 
rough on the Surface, and have irregular Veins} 
and they are a little wav’d or indented at the 
Edges é 
The Stalk tifes in the iat of thefe, a is 
round, firm; upright, and fix Inches high : 
Colout is a pale green, arid it id a little bis: 
}- On the Top of -this main’ Stém there i is a Circle 
of Red, and from this Part rife fix or eight flen- 
der Footftalks of confiderable Length; {upport~ 
ing the Flowers, ‘fpread out PY: this Means, inte 
a kind of Umbell. 
_. Thefe Footftalks ate very delicate’ of 4 “fethy 
‘Hue; afd a little hairy: on the Top of each 
ftands a double Flower; not full of Petals from 
the fame Bafe, ds in thé common Way » but pro- 
Jiferous, asin‘ that, elegant Datura’ defcrib’d in & 
preceding ‘Number. One Flower crowns. each 
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