The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . primrose-peerless (primroz-perles), n. A plant, : bifloriis. primrose-willow (prirnroz-wiFo), n. See ^a. primsie (primsi), a. [< prm + -»ie, equiv. to-//I.] Prim; demiue; precise. [Scotch.]Prim^ Mallie. Bums, Halloween. Primula (primu-lS), ». [NL. (Malpighi, 1675),is, first: see prime. Cf. prime-role, pri»iroxe.~\ 1. A genus of gamopetalousplants, the primroses, type of the order Primii-laceef and the tribe Primulese, characterized bya cons
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . primrose-peerless (primroz-perles), n. A plant, : bifloriis. primrose-willow (prirnroz-wiFo), n. See ^a. primsie (primsi), a. [< prm + -»ie, equiv. to-//I.] Prim; demiue; precise. [Scotch.]Prim^ Mallie. Bums, Halloween. Primula (primu-lS), ». [NL. (Malpighi, 1675),is, first: see prime. Cf. prime-role, pri»iroxe.~\ 1. A genus of gamopetalousplants, the primroses, type of the order Primii-laceef and the tribe Primulese, characterized bya conspicuous salver-shaped corolla, with fiveopposite stamens borne on its long tube, andby a roundish five-valved and one-celled cap-sule, containing many peltate seeds. There areabout 130 species, mainly mountain-dwellers of Europe. and Asia, with 5 in the Tnited States, 1 in extreme SouthAmerica, and 1 in the mountains of .lava. They are beau-tiful low-growing plants, with perennial rootstocks. The 4728 leaves are all radical, obovate or roundish, entire or tooth-ed, and form a spreading tuft. The flowers are dimor-phous, some having a short stj-le and stamens borne highup on the tube, others opposite in both respects. Theyare white, pink, purple, or yellow in color, grouped inbracted umbels—in the true primrose, however, appearingas if on separate stalks. The common P. veris of Eui-opeand northern Asia, elsewhere in gardens, with yellow orstraw-colored flowers in eaiiy spring, has three varieties,of ten regarded asspecies,CO iTesponduig to the names ^>/t-rose (P. culjaris), eoieslip or paffle (P. veris), and oxlip (). It is, however, generally believed that P. elatioris a good species, indigenous, though rare, in England,called Bardneld oxlip; and, according to Darwin, P. vul-garis and P. veris ar
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