The only interesting point is the frequency of the production of natural hybrids, i.e. oxlips, and the existence of one kind of oxlip which constitutes a third good and distinct species. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
In the spring the mead through which we were passing was a natural parterre, where in the midst of the lively vernal green, bloomed the oxlip, the white and blue violet, the yellow-cup dotted with jet, and many another fragile and aromatic member of the floral sisterhood. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
In your last note you ask what the Bardfield oxlip is. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Under what nodding oxlip did Shakespeare find Titania asleep?. From Wordnik.com. [Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida] Reference
It is P. elatior of Jacq., which certainly looks, when growing, to common eyes different from the common oxlip. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Flowers like the oxlip, with transparently thin petals, only faintly washed with colour, yet have a distinct and pervasive scent. From Wordnik.com. [The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
I enticed him to a field where I knew it was possible to secure an occasional oxlip, but he only looked pale, shook his head distressingly, and said, I don't think nothin 'of. From Wordnik.com. [Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden] Reference
I enticed him to a field where I knew it was possible to secure an occasional oxlip, but he only looked pale, shook his head distressingly, and said, "I don't think nothin 'of oxlips.". From Wordnik.com. [Mary's Meadow And Other Tales of Fields and Flowers] Reference
The power of remaining for a good long period constant I look at as the essence of a species, combined with an appreciable amount of difference; and no one can say there is not this amount of difference between primrose and oxlip. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
I have never heard of the common oxlip being found in great abundance anywhere, and some amount of difference in number might depend on so small a circumstance as the presence of some moth which habitually sucked the primrose and cowslip. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
The trees are alive and leafy, the shrubs are pushing, and the spring flowers, wood anemones, violets, and the oxlip (which in this country takes the place of the primrose and the cowslip) flower beautifully among the shell-holes, rags, and old tins of war. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Front Line] Reference
Where oxlip and the nodding violet grows, 'and then I'll describe the' bank 'so she can copy it. ". From Wordnik.com. [Ethel Morton's Enterprise] Reference
Where oxlip and the nodding violet grows --. "why, then, my masters, you must put up the price and employ a genius to work the miracle. From Wordnik.com. [The Delicious Vice] Reference
For a general account of the Bardfield oxlip (Primula elatior) see Miller Christy, "Linn. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
As cowslip unto oxlip is. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference
On grassy banks, oxlip of orient dye. From Wordnik.com. [Our Village] Reference
"As cowslip unto oxlip is. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference
Christy, H. Christy, Miller, on oxlip. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
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