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the stem and calvces, with a white 

 meal. Peduncles about 6 in. high. 

 Flowers 1 in. across, 3-12 together 

 in more or less pendulous umbels, 

 lilac-mauve, with a small greenish- 

 yellow eye. Corolla - tube almost 

 closed. West China. (J. Veitch & 

 Sons.) 



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•Primula secundiflora. (Bees, Cat. 



No. 41, 1913, 12, f.) H. A vigorous- 

 rowing species resembling F, sik- 

 imensts in habit. Umbels several- 

 flowered, on scapes much longer than 

 the leaves. Flowers pendulous, rather 

 large, fragrant, dull rich purple. 

 Western China. (Bees, Ltd.) 



Primula Silva*Taroucana. {Fedde, 



Bepert, xii. 390.) H. Garden hybrid 

 between P. pnlveruhnta and P. Cock- 

 burniana. (J, Veitch & Sons; Den- 

 drologische Gesellschaft in Oeter- 

 reich- Ungarn. ) [Syn. P. TJniq ue ; 

 G. C. 1907, xli. 390, f. 163.] 



Primula tangutica var. 8Uiphurea. 



(G. C, 1913, liii. 256.) H. Differs 

 from the typical form in having 

 greenish-yellow flowers with a longer 

 calyx and large broad spreading, not 

 recurved, corolla-lobes. West Kansu, 

 China. (J. Veitch & Sons.) 



Primula Tewfikiana. (E. H. 1913, 



367 I G. C. 1913, liv. 159.) H. Gar- 

 den hybrid. One of the parents is 

 supposed to be P. Bulleyana. The 

 other is unknown. (Vilmorin-An- 

 drieux & Co., Paris.) 



Fringlea antiscorbutica. [R, N, 



1913, 14, ff. 3-4.) Cruciferae. H. 

 *' Kerguelen's Land Cabbage,*' valu- 

 able for its antiscorbutic properties. 

 It is a perennial with a long stout 

 rhizome, and forms a head of leaves 

 in \vhich it resembles Brassica 

 oferacea. Leaves broadly obovate- 

 spathulate, 3-6 in. long. Peduncle 

 arising from the rhizome, beneath 

 the foliage, 2-3 ft. long, leafy, bear- 

 ing a dense raceme 6-12 in, long. 

 Sepals oblong. Petals none. Fruits 

 shortly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 f-1 in. long. Kerguelen Land. (Paris 



B. G.) 



Prunus glandulosa var. trichostyla. 



(G. C. 1913, liii. 192.) Rosaceae. 

 H. A dwarf shrub, with wiry erect 

 . growths, apparently quite glabrous ; 

 young twigs glossy purple-brown. 

 Leaves appearing with the flowers, 

 about 1 m. long and ^ in. broad, 

 finely serrate. Flowers white, about 

 I in. _ across, solitary, or sometimes 

 in pairs, in the axils of the previous 

 year's leaves. Pedicels ^ in. long. 

 Central China. (Mis* Willmott.) 



Prunus Pissardii Spaethiana. (G. C. 



1913, liv. 326.) H. Superior to 

 typical P. Pissardii in its shining 

 and deeply - coloured foliage. The 

 colour is retained through the 

 summer and autumn. This plant 

 appeared in cultivation about 3 years 

 ago under the name of Wood's 

 variety. (W. Wood & Son.) [Prunus 

 cerasifera var. atropurpxirea forma.] 



Prunus thibetica. {Veitch, iV. H, P. 



1913, 12.) H. A very ornamental 

 species belonging to the section Eu- 

 prunuSy attaining a height of 15-20 ft. 

 Flowers blush -pink. Western China. 

 (J, Veitch & Sons.) 



Pseudotsuga Douglasil Moerlieiniii. 



(i¥. D. G. 1913,_ 321.) Coniferae. 



H. A fine form with a compact habit 



and finer deeper blue foliage than in 

 the type. (B. Ruijs, Sloerheim, 

 Dedemsvaart, Holland.) 



*Pteridophynum racemosum. [G. C. 



1913, liii. 409.) Papaveraceae. A 

 small glabrous herb. Leaves radical, 

 narrowly obovate, pinnatisect, 4— Bin. 

 long, about 1 in. broad ; segments 

 oblong-linear, rounded at the apex. 

 Scape slender, 6-9 in. long, bearing 

 a loose raceme of small white flowers. 

 Japan, (Edinburgh B. G.) 



Pteris tremula var. Duvali. (R. H. 



1913, 147; /. H, F. 1913, 99.) 

 Filices. G. A sporeling from P. 

 tremula with a more elegant habit, 

 fronds of the clearest green and 

 crimped. (C. Le Coulteux, Chesnay, 

 Versailles.) 



Pyracantha crenulata var. yunnan*- 

 ensis. {R. H. 1913, 204, col. t. f. B.) 



Piosaceae. H. Differs from the type 

 in being more vigorous, in having 

 longer spines, equally persistent 

 larger leaves, corymbs of more 

 numerous small white flowers which 

 have shorter pedicels, and fruits of 

 a much brighter coral red. Yunnan, 

 China. (M. L. de Vilmorin, Les 

 Barres, France.) [Syn. Crataegus 

 crenulata, Eoxb. var.] 



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Quercus rubra magnlfica. (M. D, G. 



1913, 322, f.) Cupuliferae. H. A 

 form in which the leaves of one of 

 the lowest branches are 2 or 3 times 

 as large as the ordinary ones. (H. 

 G. von Carlowitz-Hartitzsch, Heyda, 



Saxony.) 



*Raphiolepls indica x Delacouri. 



{R. H. 1913, 343.) Rosaceae. G. 

 Three unnamed forms of a hybrid 

 with this parentage are described , 

 having respectively red, salmon-rose. 

 and white flowers. (P. Nabonnand, 

 Golfe Juan, France.) 



