cowslip

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• We found some, but not the great swathes that we had hoped for, although we were rewarded by plenty of patches of bluebells, drifts of wood anemones, a glade with masses of milkmaids and lots of primroses, cowslips and violas and bugle.
• Banks of primroses, drifts of bluebells and clusters of cowslips are now found only in secret, out-of-the-way places.
• In my garden I am happily growing the common primrose, cultivated cowslips, and primulas.
• She became conscious that the long grass was drenched and her shoes and stockings wet through; there was light enough to see in that grass the stars of jonquil, grape hyacinth and the pale cast-out tulips; there would be polyanthus, too, bluebells and cowslips — a few. Flowering Wilderness
• They are scarcely more dissimilar than the primrose, the cowslip, and the oxlip, which have all been raised from the seed of the same plant, and are now regarded by botanists as varieties instead of species. An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges
• I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding cowslip grow.
• The Cowslip Count took place in the spring of 2000 and we received data on over 2,000 places around the UK where cowslips, primroses and false oxlips are growing.
• Every year the fields and banks near Down House are dotted with cowslips and primroses, all members of the genus Primula.
• And in the spring they make of them excellent Minnow-tansies; for being washed well in salt, and their heads and tails cut off, and their guts taken out, and not washed after, they prove excellent for that use; that is, being fried with yolk of eggs, the flowers of cowslips and of primroses, and a little tansy; thus used they make a dainty dish of meat. The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation
• Cowslip and oxlip are familiar names of varieties of the same plant, and they bear so close a resemblance that it is hard to tell them apart. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton