P R IM U L A villosa.
Villous Primrose.
Linnean Class and Order. P E N T A N D I I IA M O N O G Y N IA .
N a tu ra l Order. PRIM U LA C EA E . Brown prodr. 427.
P R IM U L A . Supra fol. 5. series 2.
P . villosa, foliis planis ovato-oblongis serrulatis villoso-viscosis margine
' ciliatis, umbellis plurifloris erectis, pedunculis calycibusque viscosis,
tubo corollæ calyce duplo longiore, corollæ tubo et fauce villosute
Primula villosa. Jacq. mise. aust. 1. p . 159. Flor. a u s t . f t. 27. tVtlld.
spec. 1. p . 803. Lehm, monoff. primul. p . 77. Sturm. f l . germ. fase. 24.
Trattin. tabular, t. 438. Roem. et Schult. syst. 4. p . 147.
Slem short, erect. Leaves tufted, flat, oblong or ovate,
slightly villous, and covered with a viscous substance, toothed
with rounded bluntish teeth, from four to six on each side
of the leaf, attenuated at the base into a sort of footstalk.
Scape cylindrical, densely clothed with short white pellucid
hairs, as are the pedicles and calyx. Umbel several-flowered.
Lnvolucre of several short cordately ovate, obtuse, viscous
bractes, with sometimes a long leafy one or two intermixed.
Pedicles slender, gradually thickening upwards, about three
times longer than the calyx. Calyx short, viscous, and clothed
with short hairs, tubular, deeply 5-toothed ; teeth ovate,
blunt, fringed. Corolla reddish purple, tubular, tube clothed
with short hairs, about twice the length of the calyx ; limb
spreading, obcordate, deeply notched ; lacmiæ nearly as long
as the tube: mouth clothed with short down. Slamens 5 inserted
in the tube: filamenls short, joined to the base ot the
anthers. Style smooth, included in the tube. Sligma capitate,
point depressed. , . , • • i
The present plant, and some others to which it is nearly
related, appear to be less understood, and m more contusion,
than any of the other part of the genus, several having been
confounded under P. villósa; those have m part been set to
rights by Lehmann in his Monograph of the genus. Ih e
figure of the Botanical Magazine, t. 14, generally given as a
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