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'• vided into five fegments ; they have five chives, ^ 
with white fummits, and are (iipported on the ■ 
tops of the (talks and branches by pedicles, about i 
half an inch long. The (talk, where the pedi- ; 
cles (hoot out, is naked ; but on each pedicle, a 
little below the flower, (tands a (ingle leaf ; - The 
ovary and* empalement conjoin, and compofe i 
the fruit. • We have but one fpecies of this. : 
plant, viz, 
‘ Samolus valer-andi,^ R. 285. Anagallis aquatic a * 
rotunda folio non crenato,, C, 252.- aquatica rotundifo- \ 
Hay G. E. 620. aquatica 3 Loh, folio fuhrotundq \ 
non crcnatOy P.* 1237. Round -leav’d Water Pirn- i 
pernel. In marfhy places. On Brigftear mofsj t 
m2iX Kendal y Weftmoreland f . It flowers ivC yune. \ 
Primula veris, Primrole. It 'has a perennial j. 
root : The leaves are oblong and wrinkled : Th^ . 
' empalement is foft, has five (ides, and is cut in- i 
to five fegments : The flower is monopetalous, 
■ and contains five chives within its -tube ; the up- 
per part thereof being expanded, and cut into 
‘ five fegments, each fegment ending in the (hape 
— of a heart ; ‘ The fruit is an oblong (hell, almoft 
hid within the empalement, indofirig rouiidilh 
feeds *, and opens at the top, when ripe. The . 
fpecies are : ^ 
I. Primula veris vulgaris y R. 284, P. 535. "ve- 
ris minory G. 636. verbafcidum fylvarum majus 'fin- 
gulari florCy €. 241. Common Primrofe. Itfiower^ 
m the fpring. Common in woods \ by hedg^ and 
bullies. There are a great many varieties -of this 
fpecies. 
' 2. Primula pratenjis inodor a luteay R. 284, G. 
635. Verhafculum pratenfe aut fylvaticum inoderumy 
C. 241. Paralyjis altera oderata flare pallida poly* 
anthoSy P. Par, 244. Great Cowflips, or Oxlips. 
In woods, and near hedges -, fometimes in pa(hires. 
In leaves and roots it agrees with the common 
Primrofe : 
