Linnaeus has observed, that the flowers, which in the day time are remarkably fragrant, in the night are almost without scent.

“It is propagated by sowing the seeds in the spring, either upon a gentle hot-bed, or on a warm border of light earth:  when the plants are come up about two inches high, they should be transplanted either into pots, or into a bed of fresh earth, at about four or five inches distance every way, where they may remain until they have obtained strength enough to plant out for good, which should be either in pots filled with good fresh earth, or in a warm situated border, in which, if the winter is not too severe, they will abide very well, provided they are in a dry soil.” Miller’s Gard.  Dict.

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Primula villosa.  Mountain Primula.

Class and Order.

Pentandria Monogynia.

Generic Character.

Involucrum umbellulae. Corollae 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.

[Illustration:  No. 14]

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 neighboured 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 Linnaeus:  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 colours, flowers in April, and will succeed with the method of culture recommended for the Round-Leaved Cyclamen.

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Narcissus Jonquilla.  Common Jonquil.

Class and Order.

Hexandria Monogynia.

Generic Character.

Petala sex. Nectario infundibuliformi, monophyllo.

Stamina intra nectarium.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

NARCISSUS Jonquilla spatha multiflora, nectario hemisphaerico crenato, breviore petalis, foliis semiteretibus. Lin.  Spec.  Pl. p. 417.