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Tho leaves are comparatively short, stiff, smooth 

 and sharp pointed. The flower scape, three to 

 four inches or less high, carries one or two deep 

 rose-coloured flowers. 



P clu'-iana, from the same region, also flourislies 

 in gritty loam and half shade. The leaves are 

 smooth," light green, with cartilaginous margins, 

 which "are also ciliated; the flower scape, some 

 four or five inches high, hears tjeveral fairly large 

 rose-coloured flowers. Certain species of the 

 Auricula section are distinguished by havnig the 

 leaves and often the flower scapes furnished with 

 .••lands which give off a somewhat sticky, reddish 

 fluid. Among others P. pedemontana ii to be 

 met with in gardens, and bears above the rosettes 



other forms are white or pale pink, and some have 

 rather small flowers. The delightful plant known 

 as P. pubescens alba is apparently to be con- 

 sidered a form of P. hirsuta. as also are ciliata 

 superba. a magnificent variety with large violet- 

 colovTred flowers, and ciliata purpurea, Mrs. J. H. 

 Walker and the now i)opular variety " The 

 General." 



P. integrifolia l)elongs to the section with 

 colourless glands and is not too common in 

 gardens though fairly easy to grow. It has been 

 described as free flowering, but this is not our 

 experience at Glasnevin, where it has been grown 

 in a granite moraine, and certainly increased but 

 never flowered freely. It bears, rather sparingly. 



of glandular leaves umbels of rosy purple flowers 

 often with a white " eye." 



P. oenensis. also known as daonensis, comes 

 from the high Alps of the South Tyrol. The 

 leaves, like others in this section, are sticky, and 

 the flowers, carried in umbels, are rose-coloured, 

 each with a white centre. 



P. villovsa is a pretty plant with glandular 

 leaves and short flower scapes surmounted by one 

 or two pale rose-coloured flowers. 



P. commutata is also in cultivation and re- 

 sembles the above species, and is, in fact, now 

 looked upon as a variety; flowers l)right rose. 



P. cottia is an interesting little plant, sticky in 

 all its parts, and bearing mnbels of rose-coloiared 

 flowers. 



P. hirsuta is one of the best and showiest 

 specie.> for the garden and is frequently offered 

 as P. viscosa, from which it differs in the smaller 

 leaves, which are also furnished with reddish 

 glands, and in the shorter flower scape. The 

 best forms have large rose-coloured flowers, but 



lilac or purplish rose-coloured flowers on rather 

 short scapes. 



P. Allioni is a dainty gem but not too amen- 

 able to cultivation on the rockery. Some years 

 ago the late Mr. Ball collected several plants in 

 Northern Italy, and grown in pots they have 

 flourished and even increased, so that division 

 could be carried out. but when planted in various 

 positions on the rock garden they nearly always 

 perish or iDecome poor and weak during winter. 

 For the Alpine house this is an interesting little 

 plant forming rosettes of small green glandular 

 leaves, and bearing on a very short scape several 

 comparatively large, pale pink flowers, each with 

 a white "eye." . 



P tyrolensis is a pretty species with green 

 leaves, glandular, as in the others of this section, 

 and bearing one or two large rose-coloured floweri 



on short scapes. ^ , . , ^, n ^ tvt . 



P. deorum, from Bulgaria, ot which the late Mi. 



Bali also collected specimens in that country, 



grew for some years in the bog garden at Gias- 



