Notre oN A NEw PRIMULA FOUND IN 
ORKNEY BY Mr M. SPENCE. 
BY 
C. E. MOSS, D.Sc, FES) Rae 
Curator of the Herbarium, University of Cambridge. 
Three years ago Mr M. Spence sent two forms of 
Primula scotica to Mr E. W. Hunnybun to draw for 
the “Cambridge British Flora.” One of these was 
quite typical of the form originally described and 
figured by Hooker in the second edition of the 
“Flora Londonensis,” p. 133 (1819), and calls for no 
further comment. 
The second plant, however, differed, as Mr Spence 
correctly pointed out, in possessing narrower, less 
compact, more spathulate, and more obtuse leaves. 
Its petals also, as Mr Spence rightly stated, were 
longer, relatively narrower, and more deeply cut. 
The plant received by Mr Hunnybun was in good 
flower, and was duly drawn. The plant was grown, 
and, to Mr Hunnybun’s great surprise, developed a 
capsule which differed from the ordinary form of P. 
scotica in being 1°5 to 2°0 times as long as the calyx. 
In this respect the plant recalls P. farinosa ; and if 
the latter species grew in Orkney, there is no doubt 
that some botanists would at once have jumped to 
