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PRÍMULA ciliata; var. purpurata.
Purple-flowered fringed Auricula.
Linnean Class and Order. P EN TA N D R IA MONOGYNIA.
N a tu ra l Order. P R IM U L A C E ^ . B r o w n prodr. \. p. A27.
P R IM U L A . Supràfol. 5.
P . ciliata, foliis obovato-cuneiformlbus grossè crenato-serratis villosulis subvis-
cosis opacis, scapo angulato 2-5-floro, calycibus campanulatis tubo tere
triplo brevioribus. Lehm, monogr. p. 19. ,
Primula ciliata. Schranh. primit. f l . salisb. no. 186. Braun, f l . salisb. l .p .
162. Lam. ill. p. 430. A it. hort. hew. ed. 1. vol. 1. p . 194. (excl.
synon.) Rcem. et Schult. syst. 4 .p . 148. Sweet suprà t. 123.
P. villosa. Suter f l . helv. \ . p . 112. (excl. synon.) Schleich, cent. i . p l . rar.
P . foliis ciliatis dentatis, scapo pauclfloro. Hall. helv. no. 613 ?
ß. purpurata, umbella multiflorá, floribus intensé purpuréis.
The whole plant clothed with minute glandular pubescence.
Scapes about 3 inches high, filiform. Leaves
cuneately spathulate, spreading, fleshy, and leathery, copiously
furnished with large, often unequal, angular, and
rather blunt teeth, an inch and a half to 2 inches long, and
an inch in breadth, marked above with rather elevated ribs.
Petioles half an inch long, flat, 4 lines broad. Umbels of
from 10 to 15 fiowers. Pedicels slender, filiform, copiously
pubescent, half an inch long. Bractes very short, ovate
obtuse, persistent. Calyx campanulate, copiously clothed
with glandular pubescence, with ovate, acute, erect teeth,
rather shorter than the tube. Corolla of the richest purple ;
tube glabrous, double the length of the calyx, swollen above,
mouth and interior of the tube of a pale sulphur colour;
limb deeply 5-lobed, about the length of the tube, the segments
obcordate, with rounded lobes. Stamens 5, inclosed,
inserted below the mouth. Filaments white, very short,