581 
PRIMULA minima. 
Smallest Auricula. Snow-rosette. 
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PENTANDRIA’ MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LysiMAcHIm. Jussieu gen. 95. Div. II. Flores scapo in- 
sidentes, umbellati involucro polyphyllo, aut rarids solitarii. 
. Folia radicalia. - meuy a ; ein 
PRIMULACER.: Brown prod. 1, 427. 
PRIMULA. Supra fol. 589. | Prec 
P. minima, foliis cuneiformibus nitidis apice multidentatis, scapo subunifloro 
foliis breviore, corolla laciniis semibifidis Y gracum referentibus, fauce 
villosula. Lehmann monog. prim. 85. 
Primula minima. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2.1. 205. Jacq. enum. pl. agr. vind. 208. 
obs. bot. 24. t. 14. mise. 1. 160. fl. austr. n. 273. t. 273. Host synops. 98. 
Suter fl. helv. 1.118. Braune fl. salisburg. n. 169. Schrank fl. salisb. 
65. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 805. Schmidt fl. bohem. 46. Willd. enum. 1. 
192. 
Primula foliis cuneiformibus nitidis, scapis unifloris. Hall. helv. n. 614. 
Auricula-Ursi minima. Clus. hist. 1. 305; cum ic. 
Rad. crassitie penne anserine et ultra, per etatem nigrescens : fibris albi- 
dis. Fol. cuneiformia, unguicularia, in rosulas collecta, glaberrima, nitida, 
coriacea, apice profundé dentata: dentibus acutis. Scapus obsolete trian- 
gularis foliis brevior, uniflorus rarias biflorus. Invol. submonophylium, ob- 
longum, paleaceum. Cal. tubulosus, 5-fidus: lacintis rotundatis brevibus 
obtusis. Cor. carnea (v. violacea), subsessilis, sepe magnitudine totius 
plante ; ad faucem villis albidis : limbo patente: laciniis semibifidis Y gre-- 
cum referentibus. Caps. obtusissima, nitida. Variat floribus albis, limbi 
laciniis et latioribus et angustioribus. Lehmann |. c. 
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~The smallest known species of its genus. Lately intro- 
duced by the Horticultural Society. Drawn in their garden 
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at Hammersmith. ts » 
It has been supposed to be extremely impatient of cul- 
tivation when removed from its natural abode, the tops 
of the highest mountains of the South of Europe, which it 
ascends to the limits of perpetual snow, at the elevation of 
7000 to 8000 feet above the level of the sea. 
The corolla is large in proportion to the plant, and 
Varies from pink to violet-purple and white: sometimes 
It equals all the rest of the plant together. The herb 
of the wild sample is still more diminutive than in the 
Cultivated one. 
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