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Primrofe : It differs from it in bearing more flowers 
in a kind of tuft, or umbel. It likewife differs from 
the common Cowflip, in having ftalks encompaffed 
with a red circle at the bafe ol each pedicle ; in ha- 
ving fome flowers that grow in tufts as before, and 
others fhooting flngly from the root upon proper 
foot-Ilalks, all of a paler colour than it. 
3. Primula veris major^ R. 284. G. 635. Ver- 
hafculum pratenfe odoratum^ C. 241. Paraiyfis vul- 
garis pratenfis Jiore flavo fmplici odorato^ P. Par ad, 
244. Common Pagils, or Cowflips. It is common 
in paflures, and flowers in April, The leaves ga- 
ther into a round head, fomewhat like thofe of Let- 
tuce, oval and wrinkled, with a pedicle running into 
a thick nerve : A ftalk rifes among thefe, about a 
fpan long, fuftaining feveral flowers (fix, feven, 
twelve, and fopietimes to the number of twenty-four) 
in tufts, of an agreeable fweet fmell and golden 
colour. 
4. Verbafculum umbellatum Alpinum minus R.285. 
C. 247. Primula veris flore ruhro,, G. 639. Paralyjis 
minor flore rubro^ P, Par, 246. Birds-eye. In York- 
Jhire and PPeflmor eland,, in moifl: mountainous mea- 
dows and paftures. The leaves are covered with 
a hoary meal on the under Tides : The flowers grow 
in an umbel, and are, for the moil part, oi a beauti- 
ful purple colour, with a yellow eye. 
Glaux, Milkwort Its ftalks are Tender, and 
fpread and creep upon the ground : The leaves 
are fmall and fatty, growing by pairs : It 
has anaked, monopetalous, purple flower, in the 
fhape of a bell, and cut into five fegments with 
five chives : The fruit is for the moft part round, 
contains fmall feeds, and opens from the top 
downwards, when ripe. There is but one fpecies 
of this plant, viz. 
Glaum maritimaj R.285. C. 215. Maritima 
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