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This text is clipped from one of Charles Darwin's books. Darwin used Primula species to examine some of his ideas concerning variability and selection across several plant generations.

This reminds us of the visionary work of Gregor Mendel on generations of pea plants.   I am not sure if Mendel worked on pea plants that yielded peas to eat or if he worked on sweet peas.  More on that later.  In the mean time, we will ponder here the lowly yet elevated Primula. See this book, On The Different Forms Of Flowers On Plants Of The Same Species, available on line at the Darwin Literature site. 

Of course, pictures of plants help greatly.  Primrose yellow could be the purest hue in the gilt palette. Here is the citation note for this classic image:  Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany. For more information and access, go to www.biolib.de

Note:  this image is a thumbnail. Click to see a moderately larger one. I should mention that I found this image on Wikipedia.  Some generous German is kind to have scanned and uploaded this.