PRIMULA LONGIFLO'RA. 
LONG- FLO WE RE!) PRIMROSE. 
Class. Order. 
PENTAN DRIA , MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
PR1MULACE*. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Europe. 
3 inches. 
May to July 
Perennial. 
No. 784. 
The origin of the word Primula is, it may be 
presumed, known to every reader of the Botanic 
Garden; it reminds us of the first offerings of 
spring, which are welcomed by all classes of society, 
even by the humble artisan, whose chief enjoyment 
of them is dependent on their transitory exister.ee 
when gathered from their native hanks, and placed to 
die on the window ledge of his back- street dwelling. 
The species of Primula which we now figure, is 
not only remarkably pretty, but is also very rarely 
met with, and as far as we know, not depicted in 
any English work. It resembles Primula farinosa 
in several particulars, but is a handsomer plant. 
Allioni, in comparing it with farinosa, says its 
leaves are less mealy, and less deeply toothed, the 
scape higher, and fewer flowers in the umbel, with 
the leaves of the involucre longer, and the tube of 
the corolla three times as long. We mention this, 
because farinosa is well known. 
Primula longiflora should be kept in a pot of 
sandy peat, well drained, and have the protection 
of a frame in winter. When fully exposed in the 
summer it should have a shady situation. 
