PRIMULA. 



P. davnensis, a false name (mistakenly formed from the Val di 

 Daone in Judicaria, above which it is found) for P. oenensis, q.v. 



P. darialica resembles P. farinosa in habit and needs. It is a 

 . plant., and has powdered and powderless forms. It is 

 in cultivation, and offers no difficulty, but I do not think it competes 

 in charm with P. farinosa, though a little larger. 



P. David i comes from the cold region of Moupin. It has largo 

 flowers of very rich violet., carried on a well-proportioned scape above 

 the rosette of sessile, oblong, wrinkled leaves. It has not yet arrived 

 in cultivation, though ardently desired, like all its kin. 



P. x Davosiana, a false name for the glorious hybrid P.xHeerii, q.v. 

 jrifoV.a). which has so impressed its discoverers 

 whenever and wherever they see it, that each time they give it a 

 distinct name, local or personal. Thus the unlucky plant has at 

 various times appeared as PP. Davosiana. assimilis, Laggeri, Thoma- 

 siana, inceria. globular iaef alia, niontafoniensis, and Trisannae, the first 

 four being Sundermann's names and the last four Gusmus's, all for 

 the same hybrid. 



P. davurica is one among the myriad named forms into which 

 diverges, in the course of its enormous distribution, the universal 

 P. farinosa. It occurs in Siberia and again in Saskatchewan. 



P. decipiens (Stein), one of the catalogue-names under which 

 lurks P. hirsute. 



P. x decora, a garden hybrid of great beauty from P. auricula, q.v. 



P. defleza was the first in cultivation, and still perhaps the most 

 generally useful, of that Chinese section which produces small flowers 

 pendent in a spike, with hairy leaves and a general miffiness in 

 moisture in winter or drought in summer. P. 

 deflexa is also the most exquisitely fragrant in a group where all the 

 s compete for the palm of sweetness. The little hanging bells 

 on the spire are of a clear periwinkle-blue. 



P. Ddavayi is yet another of the glorious species which decorate 

 Tsang-chan. It occurs there in damp cool places, and in cultivation 

 appears of slow growth and some reluctance to flower, and exacting 

 in respect of streams of water flowing beneath its roots throughout 

 the growing period. The stalked hairy leaves form a close clump, 

 shooting up from a long bud, and before them are thrown up on taller 

 litaxy Pinguiculoid or even Gloxinioid blooms 



P. deHeata is a form of the untrustworthy P. Forlesii. 

 P. denticvlata. — This vast and cabbage-like species is one of 

 universal utility, and spread throughout our gardens, even into our 



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