PRIMULA. 



vochinensis, while the former development is quite common in 

 catalogues under the name of P. serratifolia, to the utter confusion 

 of the real P. serratifolia, Franch, q.v. D. Desclimannii occurs at the 

 meeting point of its parents, on the high limestone meadows of the 

 Karawanken. Gusmus, who called it P. Deschmannii, has also called 

 it P. Kankeriana and mutata. It is of perfectly easy culture by anyone 

 who grows P. minima and P. Wulfeniana. And who is there who 

 does not ? 



P. diantha. — A quite tiny tufted miniature, with little lilac stars, col- 

 lected by Prince Henri d'Orleans, and otherwise unknown. But the 

 Petrograd Herbarium under this name shows a beautiful plant, to my 

 eye identical with my own P. scopulorum, Balf. fil. 



P. Dickieana is a variable and doubtful species of medium height 

 in the group of P. Gambeliana, with scentless large flowers ranging 

 from yellow and white to purple. The species includes P. Pantlingii. 



P. x digenea is the English form of the cross between the Primrose 

 and the true Oxlip, a most various many-named invention. 



P.xDinyana, which also appears in catalogues as P. Muretiana or 

 Mureti, is the natural hybrid between P. integrifolia and P. viscosa. 

 It occurs not uncommonly in districts where its parents abound, such 

 as on the high moors of the Engadine, and may at once be known by 

 the intermediacy of its appearance, being shorter in stature and much 

 laxer in umbel than P. viscosa, but taller, freer and more brilliant in 

 colour than P. integrifolia, of which, nevertheless, it has the large wide 

 flowers instead of the pinched long trumpets of P. viscosa. It will 

 be found further noticed under its invalid later name P. x Muretiana, 

 which ought to represent it in lists, yet too seldom does. 



P. x discolor is yet another natural hybrid, between P. oenensis and 

 P. auricula. In appearance it rather resembles a small, spoiled 

 Auricula, the gold of one parent having diluted the magenta of the 

 other into a dingy, dirty brownish tone, with a blurred yellowish eye. 

 P. discolor also occurs on the ridge of the Frate di Breguzzo, where 

 four species meet (auricula, oenensis. minima, and spectabilis). there 

 producing the four hybrids, discolor, Facchinii, Dumoulinii, coronata. 



P. diver sa is a false name for P. St 



P. dolomitis. See under P. auricula. 



P. Drummondiana. — A plant very close indeed to wonderful 

 P. Winteri, from which it differs in having smaller flowers not fringed, 

 and with the segments of the corolla bi-lobed. 



P. dryadifolia whets our expectations with hopes of one of the 

 Loveliest Primulas in the race, now ripening towards distribution in 

 careful hands. AW- are to imagine a spreading woody mass of Dryas 



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