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PRIMULACE® 55 
spreading; Southern Tirol, rare. P. viscosa, All. (PI. 
77); flowers violet, corolla saucer-shaped, with a long 
slender tube, leaves soft, obovate, dentate above the 
middle; Engadine, Ticino, Tirol, Carinthia, Dauphiny, 
Pyrenees. . commutata, Schott; flowers pink, umbel 
many-flowered, leaves spathulate, glandular-hairy, doubly 
serrate above the middle, involucral bracts ovate-lanceo- 
late, acute; Styria. PP. vzllosa, Wulf.; flowers light 
purple with white tube, calyx half as long as corolla-tube, 
teeth triangular, spreading, involucral bracts small, leaves 
obovate, coarsely toothed, whole plant viscid; Styria, 
Carniola, Carinthia, rare. PP. celzata, Schrk.; leaves 
strongly glandular-ciliate, serrate near the tip, calyx- 
teeth rather broad; Tirol, Salzburg. J. confints, Rchb.; 
calyx-teeth broadly ovate, acute, leaves densely covered 
with brownish-red glandular hairs; Piedmont. P. hzrsuta, 
Vill. (Zatefolia, Lap.); leaves thin, obovate or nearly 
orbicular, dentate, capsule shorter than the calyx; Swit- 
zerland, Tirol, Dauphiny, Pyrenees, frequent. P. @nensts, 
Thom. (daonensis, Leyb.); leaves thick, lanceolate-crenate, 
denticulate towards the tip, very viscid, capsule as long 
as the calyx; Switzerland, Tirol. 
Other species are described in local floras, but many of 
them are probably hybrids. 
3. CORTUSA, L. 
Flowers in an umbel, subtended by an involucre; 
corolla 5-lobed; stamens 5, united at the base into a 
tube; fruit a 5-valved capsule; leaves all radical. 
C. Matthioli, L. (Pl. 78); flowers red- purple, campanu- 
late, long-stalked, on a leafless hairy scape 3-6 in. high, 
