oxlip

1 "I know a bank where the wild thyme blows Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine."

2 Passages such as “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,” fail to summon the enchantments that the words evoke.

3 Short-styled oxlip, by pollen of long-styled cowslip: 18 flowers fertilised, produced three capsules, containing 7, 3, and 3 wretched seeds, apparently incapable of germination.

4 I was surprised to find that all the pollen-grains in the first of these seedling oxlips appeared sound; and in the second only a moderate number were bad.

5 Short-styled cowslip, by pollen of long-styled oxlip: 8 flowers fertilised, produced 8 capsules, containing 58, 38, 31, 44, 23, 26, 37, and 66 seeds.

6 The weather was bright, the enemy entirely inactive, and the wood, with its oxlips and other spring flowers, its budding branches unscarred by shell fire, was a picture of charm rare in modern warfare.

7 For the sake of ascertaining the two latter points, I transplanted a group of wild oxlips into my garden.

8 The case of the oxlip is interesting; for hardly any other instance is known of a hybrid spontaneously arising in such large numbers over so wide an extent of country.

9 Long-styled oxlip, by its own pollen: 24 flowers fertilised, produced five capsules, containing 6, 10, 20, 8, and 14 seeds.

10 Hence Tennyson, in "The Talking Oak:"—       "As cowslip unto oxlip is,         So seems she to the boy."

11 But already everywhere bloomed the abundant marigolds, the hepaticae, the violets, the oxlips, the gentians, the primroses, and the forget-me-nots.

12 "I'm going to say 'I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlip and the nodding violet grows,' and then I'll describe the 'bank' so she can copy it."

13 "Is that foreign for cowslips, mamma—and oxlips?"

14 The present species resembles to a certain extent in general appearance the common oxlip, which is a hybrid between the cowslip and primrose.

15 Short-styled primrose, by pollen of long-styled oxlip: 8 flowers fertilised, produced 4 capsules, containing 52, 52, 42, and 49 seeds, some good and some bad.

16 In your last note you ask what the Bardfield oxlip is.

17 At the bottom of the wood-yard was a little stream, and on the far bank clusters of oxlips were in bloom.

18 The oxlips were the same plants which, after their seeds had been collected, were transplanted and experimented on.

19 Apricot, bulrush, cedar, plane, cherry, corn, currant, daffodils, daisies, flax, lark's heels, marigolds, narcissus, nettles, oak, oxlips, plantain, reed, primrose, rose, thyme, rush.

20 With respect to Primula, and one point about which I feel positive is that the Bardfield and common oxlips are fundamentally distinct plants, and that the common oxlip is a sterile hybrid.

1 黄花九轮草

polyanthus

2 报春花科

primrose cyclamen primula cowslip loosestrife pimpernel polyanthus soldanella auricula sowbread brookweed chaffweed shooting star creeping Jenny Scarlet Pimpernel water violet drumstick primrose

3 高报春

five-finger paigle