Archive image from page 423 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofamer03bail3 Year: 1900 1434 PRIMULA PRIMULA long-obconie, hairy, the segments well separated and broadly obcordate; calyx small, not inflated. China. III. 1:574.—A most odd species, with vinca-like fls. 7. Vernales. This is a g
Archive image from page 423 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofamer03bail3 Year: 1900 1434 PRIMULA PRIMULA long-obconie, hairy, the segments well separated and broadly obcordate; calyx small, not inflated. China. III. 1:574.—A most odd species, with vinca-like fls. 7. Vernales. This is a group of spring-flowering plants to which the polyanthus and the true cowslip belong. They are much varied and hybridized, and the botany of them is therefore much confused. What Linnssus called P. veris (meaning the vernal or spring Primula) is now dismem- bered into P. officinalis, P. elatior and P. vulgaris. 1957. Primula officinalis (X M). A. Scape strong and projecting above the Ivs., bearing an umbel. B. Fls. small, the limb of the corolla concave or cup- like. 13. officinalis, .Jacq. Cowslip. Pig. Stemless, minutely soft-pubescent: Ivs. oval or oblong, abruptly contracted or subcordate at the base, the petiole winged, the limb unevenly denticulate or sometimes erose: scape 6-12 in. tall, bearing about (i-12 fls. in a close umbel, all the fls. pointing or drooping to one side: fls. bright light yellow, the tube about the length of the half-acute lobes of the loose large calyx, the limb expanding little be- yond the bulge of the calyx {about - in. across). Central and northern Europe, and long in cultivation. BB. Fls. larger, opening wide and nearli/ flat. 14. elitior, Jacq. Oxlip. Very lilje the last, but the expanded fls. twice broader, and the calyx narrow (not inflated) and with acuminate lobes: usually somewhat taller: Ivs. very rugose. Europe, particularly in moun- tains and in the northern parts. AA. Scape tisttally short or almost none, the umbels theref
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