PL ex. cor. 
21. PRIMULA CEiE. 62. Primula. 803 
4. Primula P farinosa. Mealy primrose. 
Leaves ovate oblong, rather crenate, bald, beneath pow- 
dery ; fascicles many-flowered; flowers spreading; limb of 
the corolla flat. 
Auricula ursi, q. Verbasculum uinbellatum Alpinum minus C. Buuhini, 
Rail Syn. 285, 1 . 
Primula veris flore rubro, Ger. em. 783, 1 . 
Paralysis minor flore rubro, Park. Par. 246. 
Primula farinosa, Lin. S. P. 205. 
Bird’s eye. 
Mountain bogs ; perennial ; June and July. 
Leaves light green, smooth, veined beneath ; scape up- 
right; limb of the corolla small, red, paler beneath; lobes 
linear, nicked; mouth of the tube glandular. 
X. 62. CYCLAMEN. Theophrastus. Sow-bread. 
Calyx 5-cut ; corolla rather rotate ; tube short ; mouth 
prominent; limb 5-parted, reflex; stamens 5; filaments 
very short ; anthers approximating ; stigma pointed ; cap- 
sule fleshy, globose, 5-valved. — Root fibrous ; comlus 
roundish; leaves radical, veiny, often spotted; petioles 
long, flexuous; scape 1 -flowered ; flowers drooping, white 
or purplish ; fruit twists up spirally, and buries itself in 
the ground. 
Cyclamen vernum . Spring sowbread. 
Leaves heartshape, angular, edge toothed. 
Cyclamen vernum, Ger. em. S43,3. 
Cyclamen europseum, Smith FI. Brit. 224. 
Cyclamen hederaefolium, Ait. Hort. Kevs. 196. 
Woods and hedges; perennial ; April. 
Combus large; leaves bald, spotted and waved with white, 
beneath purplish ; lobes of the corolla twisted. 
Fam.V. 22. RHI NANTHACEiE. Be Candolle. Pedi- 
cular es. Jussieu. 
Calyx divided, often tubular, persisting; corolla hypo- 
gynous, irregular, often lipped ; stamens 2 or 4, inserted 
on the corolla, 2 often shorter than the others ; anthers often 
2-bristled at the base; ovary free, 2-cell ed ; style simple ; 
capsule 2-valved, valves joined together by the central pla- 
centarium ; perisperm fleshy ; corculum straight ; cotyledons 
half round ; plumula inconspicuous. — Herb often becomes 
black by drying ; leaves opposite or alternate ; flowers often 
spiked ; bractea 1 to each flower. 
