. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 7oi) PRIMULACEAE. Vol. IL I. PRI'mULA L. Sp. PI. 142. 1753. Perennial scapose herbs, with basal leaves, and small or large white red purple or yellow dimorphous flowers, umbellate, or in involucrate or bracted racemose whorls at the summit of a scape. Calyx tubular, funnelform or canipanulate. persistent, often angled, 5-lobed, the lobes imbricated, erect or spreading
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 7oi) PRIMULACEAE. Vol. IL I. PRI'mULA L. Sp. PI. 142. 1753. Perennial scapose herbs, with basal leaves, and small or large white red purple or yellow dimorphous flowers, umbellate, or in involucrate or bracted racemose whorls at the summit of a scape. Calyx tubular, funnelform or canipanulate. persistent, often angled, 5-lobed, the lobes imbricated, erect or spreading. Corolla funnelform or salverform, the tube longer than the calyx in our species, the limb 5-cleft, the lobes imbricated, entire, emarginate or 2-cleft. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube or at the throat of the corolla, included; filaments very short; anthers oblong, obtuse. Ovary superior, globose or ovoid; ovules numerous, amphitropous; style filiform; stigma capitate. Capsule oblong, ovoid or globose. 5-valved at the summit, many-seeded. Seeds peltate, the testa punctate. [Diminutive of the Latin primus, first, from the early blossoms.] About 150 species, mostly of the northern hemisphere, a few in Java and at the Straits of Ma- gellan. Besides the following, some 18 others occur in western and northwestern North America. Type species : Primula z'eris L, Leaves almost always mealy beneath ; scape 4'-i8' high. i. Leaves green both sides; scape i'-6' high. Leaves spatulate or obovate. denticulate. 2. P. mislassinica. Leaves oval or lance-ovate, entire. 3. P. egaliksensis. 1. Primula farinosa L. Bird's-eye or Mealy Primrose. Fig. 3281. Primula farinosa L. Sp. PI. 143. 1753. Leaves spatulate to obovate or oblong, obtuse at the apex, narrowed or somewhat cuneate at the base, tapering into petioles, or sessile, usually white- or yellow-mealy beneath at least when young, green above, 1-4' long, 2"-6" wide, the margins crenulate- denticulate; scape 4'-i8' high,
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