PRIM'ULA MISTASSIN'ICA. 
LAKE MISTASSINS PRIMROSE. 
Class. 
PENTANDniA. 
Order 
MONdGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
PRIMULACEAC. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
N. America. 
3 inches. 
April, May. 
Perennial. 
in 1818. 
No. 743. 
For the meaning of the generic name, see No. 1. 
This plant was discovered on the banks of the Lake 
Mistassins, and is indigenous to that part of North 
America, from Canada to the arctic circle. 
Primula Mistassinica, which is nearly related to 
farinosa and Scotica, is not frequently met with in 
cultivation; indeed, it is comparatively a rare 
plant, but deserves a place in every collection of 
the species of this interesting family. We are in- 
debted to the obliging attention of Messrs. Atkins 
and Jeyes of Northampton, for the plant which we 
here figure. We received it in flower, in April, it 
having had the protection of a cold frame. 
It is most successfully cultivated in a pot with 
Auriculas, or Alpine plants; and should be potted 
in fresh yellow sandy loam, in preference to any 
compost or enriched soil. 
The researches of botanists abroad, and the 
industry of cultivators at home, still add to the 
species and varieties of this pleasing genus. Some 
however, we presume, are lost, for Master Hesket’s 
Double Primrose, which is described by Parkinson, 
in his Paradisus Terrestris, has not come under the 
