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Flora rustica: exhibiting ... figures of such plants as are either useful or injurious in husbandry. Vol. I[-IV] / Drawn and engraved by Frederick P. Nodder ... With scientific characters, popular descriptions, and useful observations, by Thomas Martyn.

  • Thomas Martyn
Date:
1792-1794 [i.e. 1791-1795]
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Credit: Flora rustica: exhibiting ... figures of such plants as are either useful or injurious in husbandry. Vol. I[-IV] / Drawn and engraved by Frederick P. Nodder ... With scientific characters, popular descriptions, and useful observations, by Thomas Martyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / [ 62 ] PRIMULA. PENTANDRIA Monogynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Several flowers in an umbellule, with a fmall invo- lucre. Tube of the corolla cylindrical, with the mouth open. Capfule one-celled. Stigma globofe. OBSERVATIONS. The common Primrofe * is univerfally known ; and it is fufficiently diflinguidled in its wild ftate, by its toothed roots, its oblong wrinkled leaves unequally notched about the edge, and particularly by its having no proper Talk, but only a peduncle fuftaining one flower, the corolla of which is large, falver-fhaped, of a pale yellow or fulphur colour. Linneus aflerts that it has a fhort fcape, concealed under ground, but V this feems very feldom to be the cafe. The variety which we have figured here, for we dare not in this variable genus denominate it a fpecies, has this fcape or common naked flower-ftalk as diftinT as in the Cowflip or Oxlip ; it differs alfo from the common Primrofe both in the number and colour of the flowers, but mod remarkably in the extreme * Primula veris y. Lin.fpec. 205.—vulgaris. Hudf. angl. 83. Svwerby Engl. hot. 4.—acaulis Jacq. mifc. 158. Curtis lend. v. 65. Wither, arr, 204.
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