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PRÍMULA ciliata.
Fringed Primrose.
Natural Order. PR IM T JLA C E iE . Brown p rodr. 421.
P R IM U L A . Supra fol. 5. series 2.
P . ciliata, foliis obovato-cuneiformibus grossè crenato-serratis villosulis
subviscosis opacis, scapo angolato plurifloro, calycibus campanulatis
angulatis ciliatis tubo corollæ ferè triplò brevioribus.
Primula ciliata. Roem. et Schult. syst. 4. p . 148. Spreng. syst. 1. p . 574.
Lehm, monog. prim. p . 79. Schranh p rim. f i . salisb. n. 186. Braun,
f l . salisb. 1. p . 162. Suter f l . helv. 1. p . 112. Schleich, cent. 1. p i.
rar. n. 16.
Aih hy J)ài>2S.U.
Root-stalk about the thickness of a finger, hard, and of
rather a woody texture, clothed with brown lanceolate scales.
Branches several, short, crowded with leaves. Leaves obovate
or broadly wedge-shaped, rather succulent, bluntly
rounded, deeply notched and toothed, or serrate, with sharpish
teeth, about 10 on each side of the leaf, opake, slightly
viscous, and clothed on both sides with very short hairs, the
margins fringed with short hairs that are tipped with a
small globular gland, attenuated rather abruptly down the
footstalk. Petioles broad and flat. Scape short, not much
above half the length of the leaves, slightly angular, pubescent.
Umbels several-flowered, varying according to the
strength of the plant. Involucre of several very short bluntly
rounded bractes, fringed with short hairs, and viscous. Pedicles
slender, erect, variable in length, densely clothed with
short hairs, that are all tipped with a small globular gland.
Calyx short, campanulate, angular, pubescent, about one
third shorter than the tube of the corolla : laciniæ blunt,
spreading, fringed. Coro//« pale flesh-coloured ; slender,
smooth, swollen where the stamens are inserted; mouth white,
clothed with short villous down : limb spreading, flat : seg