cowslip

• He who believes that the cowslip is descended from the primrose, or conversely, ranks them together as a single species, and gives a single definition. —  On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)
• An American cowslip is not an English cowslip, an American primrose is no English primrose, and the English daisy is no country friend of ours in America What cheerful and appropriate furnishings the old-time gardens had; benches full of straw beeskepes and wooden beehives, those homelike and busy dwelling-places; frequently, also, a well-filled dove-cote. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
• The genus Primula includes the European primrose and cowslip, as well as two or three small American species, and the commonly cultivated Chinese primrose. —  Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
• But she touched my heart with a sudden delight, like a cowslip-blossom (although there were none to be seen yet), and the sweetest flowers of spring She gave me no encouragement, as my mother in her place would have done; nay, she even wiped her lips (which methought was rather rude of her), and drew away, and smoothed her dress, as if I had used a freedom. —  Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor
• At her throat there was a cowslip--a rare flower in Orkney. —  The Pilots of Pomona

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