10 INTRODUCTION. 
and downy, that they are agitated by the 
moft trifling breezes. 
The Auricula is of the clafs and order 
Pentandria Monogynia; according to Lin¬ 
naeus, it is the Auricula Urli; live, Primula 
foliis feratis glabris : i. e. Bear’s Ear; or 
Auricula with fmooth ferrated leaves. 
The Auricula, according to Linnaeus, 
is a native of the alps of Switzerland and 
Styria; it is called Sanicula Alpina, by 
Bauhine, Gefner, See. it owes its prefent 
improved Hate, principally to the afliduity 
and attention of Englilh Florifts to its 
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culture, who have, from the feed of a 
flower, imported from Holland about 
fifty years fince, produced, by continued 
cultivation, almoft all the varieties we 
now can boaft. The Dutch and French 
have extended their improvement of this 
flower, little or no further than to pro¬ 
duce a numerous variety of yellow, brown, 
and 
