Blossom. One petal. Tube cylindrical, the length of the cup, terminated by a short hemispherical neck. Border spreading, half cut into five divisions; the segments are inversely heart-shaped, and blunt. Mouth open.
Chives. Five threads, very short, within the neck of the blossom. Tips pointed, upright, approaching, within the tube.
Pointal. Seed-bud globular. Shaft thread-shaped, the length of the cup. Summit globular.
Seed-vessel. Capsule cylindrical, nearly as long as the cup, of one cell, opening at the top, with ten teeth.
Seeds numerous, and roundish. Receptacle oblong egg-shaped, and loose.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Primula, foliis petiolatis, cordatis, sub-lobatis, crenatis; corollis lætè purpureis.
Primrose, whose leaves have foot-stalks, are heart-shaped, slightly lobed, and scolloped; blossoms of a bright purple.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Cup, and Fruit-stalk.
2. A Blossom cut open, to shew the situation of the Chives, and its internal formation.
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, (magnified).