Tas. 6837. 
PRIMULA <Avricuna. 
Native of Central Europe. 
Nat. Ord. PrtmcLacex.—Tribe PrimuLen. 
Genus Patmuta, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 631.) 
Priva Auricula; rhizomate crasso elongato fibris radicalibus eylindricis elon- 
gatis, foliis pluribus rosulatis sessilibus obovato-cuneatis glabris vel pubescentibus, 
utringue plus minus farinosis margine pallidis farinosis integris vel superne 
crenatis, pedunculo foliis eminente gabe vel superne pubescente, umbellis 
3-20-floris, bracteis minutis ovatis, pedicellis calyce longioribus, calyce cam- 
* panulato segmentis ovatis obtusis tubo 2-3-plo brevioribus, corolla lutese tubo 
infundibulari, limbi segmentis obovato-cuneatis profunde emarginatis, fructu 
globoso calyce longiori. 
P, Auricula, Linn. Sp. Plant. edit. 2, p. 205; Jacg. Fl. Austr. t. 415; Hoppe in 
Sturm Deutsch, Flora, Pent. Mon. cum icone ; DC. F1. Frane. vol. iii. p. 448 ; 
Koch Syn. Fl. Germ. edit. 2, p. 674; Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. vol. xvii. p. 33, 
t. 1093, figs. 1,2; Gren. and Godr, Fl. Frane, vol. ii. p. 451. 
P. lutea, Vill. Delph. vol. ii. p. 469. 
In view of the interest that is being taken at present in 
Alpine Primulas, and of the exhibition and conference 
which is intended to be held next spring under the auspices 
of the Royal Horticultural Society, it seemed very desirable 
that a figure and full description of Primula Auricula 
should be given in the BorantcaL Macazine. It is one of 
the most widely spread of all of the species, as it extends 
in a wild state from Dauphine and the Jura on the west 
through Switzerland to Lombardy, the Tyrol, Hungary and 
Transylvania. But although it is so well known to botanists, 
the synonymy as above given being only a small selection 
of the botanical works in which it has been noticed or 
described, yet this typical wild form does not appear to 
have ever been figured in any of the horticultural journals, 
-What the relation is of this widely-spread wild type to the 
multiform races of the garden Auricula is a subject that 
still remains to be fully worked out. It evidently both runs 
into varieties and hybridizes freely with several other 
species, both of the Awriculastra and Arthritica groups, but 
the subject is much too wide to be discussed fully now. 
SEPT. lsT, 1885. 
