same characters, nearly, in the leaves, will serve to distinguish 
the P. pusilla from P. scotica; and with respect to the 
flowers, hesides their different color and form, those of the pre- 
sent plant have not the teeth at the mouth of the corolla, which 
are so evident in the P. scotica. 
From the P. mistassinica, it may be more difficult to de- 
fine this species : if, however, what is stated by Michaux 
concerning the former be correct, namely, that the whole plant 
is glabrous (by which I presume that he means destitute of fa- 
rma), and that the limb of the corolla is reflexed, there are 
surely enough of differences between them. Pursh was un- 
acquainted with P. mistassinica; but Lehmann, who de- 
scribes and figures it from a specimen communicated to him by 
JussiEu, retains all the characters laid down by Michaux. 
That delineation represents the leaves as considerably different 
from those of our plant, inasmuch as the lamina or broad part 
of the leaf is nearly rhomboidal, toothed only in the upper half. 
Soon after the publication of the memoir above alluded to, 
Dr ToREY of New York did me the favour to write to me 
some remarks on the species of American plants described by 
Mr GoLDiE in that paper. He observes, that the description 
of P. pusilla exactly agrees with specimens of a Primrose col- 
lected by Captain Douglass on the shores of Lake Huron, 
and that he considers it as the P. farinosa, (see Silliman's 
Journal, v. iv. p. 50.). Mr Nuttall, he says, found the plant 
m the same place (consequently it is the F. farinosa of the 
Genera of North American Plants), and that in Muhlen- 
berg's Catalogue, the P. farinosa is stated to be a native of 
Canada. 
The accompanying figure was taken from a living specimen 
which had been sent from Canada by Mr Kippin in the au- 
tumn of 1822, and being kept in its native soil, a loamy peat, 
in a large box, and placed under a common frame, it flowered 
well in the May following. It is rather larger than the wild 
specimens found by Mr Goldie near Montreal, and consider- 
ably^more so than the specimen figured in the Edinburgh Phi- 
losophical Journal. 
The first living plants of this Primula were introduced in- 
to our collections by Mr Goldie in 1819, and they flowered 
both in his garden at Ayr, and in that of P. Neill, Esq. near 
Edinburgh, in 1821. 
Fig. L Cultivated specimens of P. pusilla, iiatural size. Fig. 2. Single 
flower. Fig. 3. Calyx cut open/to shew the pistil. Fig. 4. Corolla, with 
the tube laid open,— i^fore or less magnified. 
