FLORA OF FORFARSHIRE. 
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Answer me, sinless sister ! Thou hast speech, 
Though silent. Fragrance is thy eloquence, 
Beauty thy language ; and thy smile might teach 
Ungrateful man to pardon Providence.” 
/S. umbellatum , Bab. (P. vulgaris /3. caulescens, Lond. 
Cat. Bot. Soc. P. elatior of Brit, authors, not Jacquin.) 
Near Glammis, Mr G. Don. Den of Duninald, with P. veris, 
Mr G. M'Farlane. Frequent on the coast at Usan and 
Dysart, and at the U pper Mills of Kinaber associated with 
P. vulgaris , but where I have never seen P. veris , Mr A. 
Croall. Den of Mains, a single specimen, with simple and 
umbellate scapes, — no P. veris nearer than several miles. 
Near Balmerino, Fife, on the south banks of the Tay, I have 
seen growing associated, P. vulgaris, veris, and what is called 
elatior, all apparently distinct to the eye, and not running 
into each other through intermediate forms, unless elatior 
might be considered a single connecting link between the 
other two. It has flowers exactly intermediate in size, in 
colour, and in odour, with a limb less concave than in P. veris, 
yet not so flat as in P. vulgaris ; and it has simple and um- 
bellate scapes from the same root, but this might be attri- 
buted to the general luxuriance of the plant. Whether this 
plant is a variety of P. vulgaris or P. veris, or a hybrid be- 
tween them, does not appear to be yet clearly decided ; but 
against the latter supposition there is the fact that all three 
are seldom found growing together. 
P. veris, L. Cowslip. H. 267, B. 241. — F. April, May. 
P. (P. veris a. officinalis, Hensl.) 
Frequent, though not in such exuberance as on the Fife 
side of the Tay, where in some places it covers acres. Rocky 
banks, east end of Will’s Braes. Balgay Wood. Wooded 
Hill of Laws near Drumsturdymuir. Dens of Glammis, 
Airlie, and Foulis. 
Abundant on a bank at the south end of the bridge on the 
North Esk east from Montrose, along with P. vulgaris , but 
where I have never seen P. elatior. At the west end of the 
bank the latter occurs, where there is a profusion of P. vul- 
garis, but where P. veris seldom appears, Mr A. Croall. 
Den of Duninald, Mr G. M‘Farlane. Sands of Barrie, Mr 
G. Lawson. With red flowers, Balgay Wood, Mr W. Jack- 
son, senr. 
