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PRIMULA pusiLLA. 
Lesser Bird's-eye Primrose' 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA Nat. Okd. PRIMULACEJE. 
Gen. Char.— CaZ. 5-dentatus. Cor. hypocrateriformis tubo cylindrico, fauce 
pervia. Stigma capitatum. Capsula unilocularis, decem-dentata. 
Primula pusilla; foliis obovato-spathulatis repando-dentatis, subtus sca- 
poque farinosis, umbella pauciflora, corollas tubo calyce longiore, la- 
ciniis obcordatis dentatis, ore nudo. 
P. pusilla, Goj:.DiE, in Edin. Phil. Journ. for 1822, v. vi. p. 322. 
P. farinosa, Nutt. Gen. of Amer. PI. v. i. p. 119 " Muhlenberg's Cat. of 
N. Amer. PL ?" — Silliman's Journ. v. iv. p. BQ. 
Root perennial, fibrous. Leaves radical, oboyato-spathulate, the margins re- 
pando-dentate, their upper surface green, scarcely at all farinose ; the 
under one more or less mealy. 
Scape from two to four inches high, erect, mealy. Umbel of from four to 
eight farinose rays or peduncles, which are erect, slender, above an inch 
in height, at the base furnished with an involucre of about foxir minute 
lanceolato-subulate leaflets. Calj/x nearly oblong, of five rather longish^ 
erect teeth, patent when dry. Tube of the corolla longer than the calyx, 
cylindrical, yellow ; Limb of five obcordate, patent, flesh-coloured seg- 
ments. The mouth is deep yellow, destitute of teeth-like processes. Sta- 
mens five, inserted into the tube, sometimes having the anthers reaching 
to the summit, at other times are wholly included within the tube. Ger^ 
men x'oundish, glabrous. Sti/le filiform, rather shorter than the tube of 
the corolla. Stigma capitate, yellow. 
Primula pusilla is a species first characterised by Mr 
GoLDiE, in a memoir on some new and rare Canadian Plants, 
which was inserted by him in the 6th volume of the Edin- 
hui^gh Philosophical Journal, and the species is there distin- 
guished from the P. farinosa of our own country, and from the 
P. mistassinica of Lake Mistassins in America. From the 
former, it may be known by the decidedly spathulate and al- 
most stalked leaves, their far more distinctly toothed margins, 
and nearly naked upper surface. The limb of the corolla, too, 
has broader segments, and these are of a much paler color. The 
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