Tas. 6185. 
PRIMULA. PARRYI. 
Native of the Rocky Mountains. 
Nat, Ord,—PrimuLaceaz.—Tribe PRIMULEZ, 
Genus PrimuLA, Linn.—Benth, and Hook. Gen. f.,"Plant., v. ii., p. 631 (ined.). 
Primula (Auricula) Parryi, elata, minute puberula, rhizomate crasso, foliis car- 
nosis 6-9-pollicaribus anguste obovato-oblongis obtusis v. subacutis supra 
glaberrimis subtus glanduloso-puberulis obscure denticulatis petiolo crasso, 
scapo elato robusto, involucri bracteis valde inzequalibus parvis oblongo- 
lanceolatis erectis subacutis integerrimis, umbella unilaterali multiflora, 
pedicellis elongatis inzequilongis, calycis glandulosi tubo tereti ovoideo, 
lobis subeequilongis ovato-subulatis erectis, corolla tubo calycem vix supe- 
rante, limbi lobis obovato- v. rotundato-obcordatis rubro-purpureis, fauce 
aureo inappendiculato. : 
P, Parry, A. Gray in Amer. Journ. Arts and Sc., ser. ii., v. xxxiv, (1862), p. 
257 ; Watson, Bot., 40th parall., p, 213; Porter and Coulter, Synops. Fl. 
Colorado, p. 88. 
Except perhaps the P. japonica (tab. nostr. 5916), this is 
the handsomest Primrose ever introduced into this country. 
It was discovered about 1860, in the Rocky Mountains of 
the Colorado district, always on the borders of alpine streams 
near the snow-line, flowering in July, where it gives the name 
of ‘Primrose Creek ”’ to one of the affluents of the Colorado 
River, in about lat. 37° N. Since that period it has been 
discovered commonly in alpine and subalpine spots in Nevada, 
in the E. Humboldt range, Clover Mountains, Gray’s Peak, 
and Mount Lincoln, ascending to 13,000 feet altitude; thus 
having a considerable range, both in latitude and longitude. 
Dr. Gray compares the species with the Caucasian P. pyeno- 
rhiza, and with P. algida and P. nivalis, and suggests the pos- 
sibility of all being forms of one—a question which cannot be 
decided without more copious specimens than I possess. 
Primula Parryi was raised and flowered by Messrs. Backhouse, 
of York, who sent the specimen here figured to Kew in May 
of the present year. ae 
Duscr. Densely tufted; rootstock very stout, thicker 
than the thumb? eaves crowded, suberect, 5-9 inches long, 
narrowly obovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, sessile ornarrowed 
into the very broad petiole, obscurely toothed or quite entire, 
