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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Class V. 
349. ANDROSA'CE. W. 
2010 maxima W. 
2011 elongata W. 
2012 septentrionalis W. 
2013vm6sa W. 
3014 lactiflora Fisch. 
2015 Chamaejasme W. 
20161actea W. 
2017 carnea W. 
2018 obtusifolia W. 
2019 nana Horn. 
Androsace. 
oval-lea%'^ed 
cluster-flowered 
tooth-leaved 
villous ^ 
Buckshorn-lvd. 
Grass-leaved ^ 
white-flowered ^ 
awl-leaved ^ 
blunt-leaved 
dwarf 
M. 
350. PRI'MULA. W. 
2020 vulgaris E. B. 
13 plena-cdrnea B. 
y plena-dlba 
5 plena-sulpMrea 
£ plena-rdbra 
? plena-cHprea 
•n plena-atro^rp&rea 
3- plena-violdcea 
2021 elatior W. 
2022 veris W. 
2023 farinosa W. 
2024! davtirica Fisch. 
2025 cortusoides W. 
2026 dentiflora Andr. 
2027 longifolia H. K. 
2028vill6sa W. 
^flore-albo 
2029 nivalis W. 
2030 marginata W. 
2031 Auricula W. 
2032 Palinuri W. en. 
2033 integrifplia W. 
2034 finmarchica W. 
2035 minima L. 
203(') sinensis Lindl. 
2037 stricta Horn. 
2038 scotica Hook. 
2039 Pallasii Lehm. 
2040pu£nia Hook. 
2041 viscosa W. 
2042 decora B. M. 
Primrose. 
common 
flesh-col.-double 
double-white 
doub.-brimstone H 
double-red j£ 
double-copper £ 
doub.-drk-purp. j£ 
double-lilac j£ 
Oxlip £ 
Cowslip 
Bird's-eye ^ 
Siber. bird's-eye^ 
Cortusa-leaved ^ 
tooth-flowered ' 
long-leaved 
villous-leaved 
white-flowered 
snowy 
silver-edged 
Auricula 
flat-flowered 
entire-leaved 
Norwegian 
least 
Chinese 
upright 
Scotch 
Pallas's 
little 
clammy 
comely 
O or 
O or 
O or 
A or 
Q) or 
A or 
A or 
A or 
O or 
O or 
A or 
A or 
A or 
A or 
A or 
A or 
A or 
I mr.jn W 
\ ap.my W 
I ap.my W 
, jn.jl 
ijn.s 
? jn.au 
I jn.au 
i jl.au 
i ap.jn 
I ap.my W 
Primulacece. 
i mr.my Y 
^ mr.my Pk 
5 mr.my W 
\ mr.my Y 
5 mr.my R 
^ mr.my O 
i mr.my Pu 
X mr.my Li 
1 mr.my Y 
I my.jn Y 
5 jn.jl 
my.jn 
1 my.jl R 
1 my.jl R 
I ap.my R 
5 ap.my Pu 
5 ap.my W 
I ap.my Pu 
Pk 
Sp. 10—35. 
Austria 
Austria 
Russia 
Pyrenees 
Siberia 
Austria 
Austria 
Switzerl. 
Italy 
Denmark 
1597. S p.l 
1776. S p.l 
1755. S p.l 
1790. D s.p 
1806. D s.p 
1768. D s.p 
1752. D s.p 
1768. 
1817. 
D s.p 
S s.p 
1803. S p.l 
Sp. 23^5. 
Britain woods. 
Britain 
Britain 
Britain 
Britain 
Britain 
Britain 
Britain 
Britain woods. 
Britain m. pa. 
Britain m, pa. 
1806. 
1794. 
1806. 
1790. 
Siberia 
Siberia 
Siberia 
Levant 
Switzerl. 1768. 
Switzerl. 1768. 
Dauria 1790. 
Switzerl. 1777. 
Switzerl. 1596. 
Naples 1816. 
Pyrenees 1792. 
Norway 1798. 
S. Europe 1819. 
China 1820. 
Denmark 1822. 
Scotland aLhea. 
Altai 1823. 
N. Amer. 1822. 
Piedmont 1792. 
1800. 
D s.l 
D S.1 
D p.l 
D p.l 
D p.l 
D p.l 
D p.l 
D p.l 
D p.l 
D s.l 
D s.l 
D h.l 
D h.l 
D p.l 
D p.l 
D s.l 
S s.l 
D s.l 
D s.l 
D s.l 
D s.1 
D p.l 
D p.l 
Jac. aus. 4. t. 331 
Jac. aus. 4. t. 330 
Bot. mag. 2021 
Bot. mag. 743 
Bot. mag. 2022 
Bot. cab. 232 
Bot. mag. 868 
Bot. cab. 40 
AU.ped.l.t46.f.l 
Eng. bot. 4 
Bot. mag. 2: 
Eng. bot. 518 
Eng. bot 5 
Eng. bot. 6 
Bot. mag. 1219 
Bot. mag. 399 
Bot. rep. 451 
Bot. mag. 392 
Bot. mag. 14 
Bot. mag. 1161 
Pal. it. t. G.* f. 2 
Bot. mag. 191 
Jac. aus. 5. t. 415 
Sweet fl. gard. 8 
Bot. mag. 942 
Flor. dan. 188 
Bot. reg. 581 
Lind. coll. t. 7 
Fl. dan. 1. 1385 
Bot. cab. 652 
Lehm. mon. t. 3 
Hook. ex. fl. 68 
AU.ped.l. t.5. f.l 
Bot. mag. 1922 
History, Use, Propagation, Culture, 
349. Androsace. From ctvvi^ kv^^os, a man, and trccxos, a buckler ; the large round hollowed leaf of the com- 
mon Androsace has been compared to the buckler of the ancients. The Androsace of Pliny and others must 
have been something very different. These are elegant mountaineers which may be treated in all respects as 
Aretia. 
350. Primula, is derived from primus, the first, — to flower ; the delicate blossoms of many of the spe- 
cies appearing when all nature is otherwise inert. This genus consists of beautiful dwarf alpine plants, valu- 
able in horticulture, on account of their flowering early in spring, and being prolific in variation. 
P. vulgaris is a native of most parts of Europe in woods and hedges on a moist clayey soil. It is generally 
found with brimstone-colored flowers, and single ; but in some places, though rarely, it is found of a white, and 
again, of a purple hue, and occasionally double. The leaves and roots, which smell of anise, when dried, 
ground, and used as snuff, act as a sternutatory, and, taken internally, as an emetic. The varieties and subva- 
rieties of this plant are very numerous. Some consider P. veris and elatior as sprung from it, and only more per- 
manent varieties. The Hon. W. Herbert says, he raised from the seed of one umbel of a highly-manured red 
cowslip, a primrose, a cowslip, and oxlips, of the usual and other colors ; a black polyanthus, a hose-in-hose 
cowslip, and a natural primrose bearing its flower on a polyanthus stalk ; and from the seed of the hose-in-hose 
cowslip he raised a hose-in-hose primrose. {Hort. Trans, iv. 19.) But this requires confirmation, as the circum- 
stance was never before recorded. For distinction's sake we shall consider them as species or subspecies. 
The varieties of P. vulgaris are arranged by florists in two classes ; the first contains all those whose flowers 
are on separate pedicels, rising from the root upon a common stem, so short as not to be seen without separating 
the leaves of the plant, and are called primroses. The second class includes all those whose flowers are in um- 
bels on a scape or flower-stalk rising from three to six inches or more, and are called polyanthuses. Of the prim- 
roses there are about a dozen beautiful varieties in cultivation ; and of the polyanthus an innumerable number, 
goadily added to by propagation from seed. The names of the varieties, with the exception of the double sorts 
riven above, are entirely arbitrary. The rules for judging of the beauty or merits of a variety are also wholly 
artificial, and founded on an imaginary form far removed from ordinary nature. These rules or canons are 
