Tas. 5794, 
PRIMULA PEDEMONTANA. 
Piedmontese Primrose. 
Nat. Ord. PrimuLaceEa.—PENTANDRIA Monoaynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5528.) 
Primvuxa pedemontana ; foliis oblongis obovatisve obsolete repando-dentatis 
glanduloso-ciliatis junioribus convolutis subcarnosis levibus, scapo pedi- 
cillisque glandulis brevissime stipitatis viscosis adspersis, involucri brac- 
teis parvis late oblongis obtusis pedicellis multo brevioribus, corolla 
lobis obcordatis, fauce esquamato non farinoso, staminibus sexus bre- 
vistyli paulo infra medium tubi insertis, capsula calycem equante. 
Priva pedemontana, Thomas. Plant. exsicc., Koch. Synops. Flor. Germ. et 
Helvet., Ed. 2. p. 675. 
One of a: lovely series of Swiss Alpine Primulas of the 
Auricula group, which includes P. pubescens, Jacq., rhetica, 
Gaudin and villosa, Jacq., and which are distinguished from 
one another by such slight characters that continental authors 
are not altogether of one accord as to their limits Reichen- 
bach (Ie. Crit. vol. vii. p. 17. t. 856-7), considering them as 
one species, and Koch keeping them distinct. It is a native 
of the high Alps of Piedmont and Switzerland, and one of 
the most lovely plants of those regions. ‘The specimen 
figured bloomed profusely in the Royal Gardens in April of 
the present year, from roots received from Messrs. Backhouse, 
of York. ‘The flowers vary a good deal in colour in the 
native state, those here figured are of the clearest and brightest 
rose-purple that can well be imagined. _ Les 
Desc. Rosettes of leaves two to three inches in diameter, 
appressed to the ground. Leaves one to one and a half inches 
long, oblong or obovate, hardly petioled enough to be spathu- 
late, obtusely sinuate, toothed, covered and fringed with glan- 
dular viscid hairs, deep green with a paler midrib. Scapes 
stout, two to four inches high, very many-flowered, viscidly 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1869. 
