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Primula villosa or Mountain Primula
Primula villosa. Mountain Primula
Class and Order
Pentandria Monogynia
Generic Character
Involucrum umbellulæ. Corollæ tubus cylindricus: ore patulo
Specific Character and Synonyms
PRIMULA villosa foliis obovatis dentatis villosis, scapo brevissimo
multifloro.
PRIMULA villosa. Jacquin Fl. Austr. app. t. 27.
Mr. Miller, in the Sixth Edition of the Abridgment of his Gardener's
Dictionary, mentions only four Primulas, exclusive of the Auricula,
the two first of which are named erroneously, and of the two last
not a syllable is said either as to their place of growth or
culture.
The plant here figured, has been introduced pretty generally into
the Nursery-Gardens in the neighbored of London within these few
years: Mr. Salisbury informs me, that a variety of this plant with
white flowers, brought originally from the Alps of Switzerland, has
for many years been cultivated in a garden in Yorkshire.
It is not noticed by Linnæus: Professor Jacquin, in his Flora
Austriaca, has figured and described a Primula, which, though not
agreeing so minutely as could be wished with the one we have
figured, is nevertheless considered by some of the first Botanists
in this country as the same species; he gives it the name of
villosa, which we adopt, though with us it is so slightly villous as
scarcely to deserve that epithet.
It varies in the brilliancy of its colors, flowers in April, and
will succeed with the method of culture recommended for the
Round-Leaved Cyclamen.
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