PRIMULA. 



P. stricta, of sub-arctic Europe. Lapland, and Norway, is best taken 

 as only 



P. Faurieae [P. F of Pax] is a dry-ground form of the 



useful and charming little gold-powdered Farinosa sub-species 

 P. modesta from Japan. 



P. Ft - glabrous toothed oval-rounded leaves in a 



neat upstanding tuft ; and then on a most gracefully -pro portioned 

 scape, a most graceful umbel of big wide purple flowers. But un- 

 fortunately it is not yet in cultivation, so further commendations would 

 in. 



P. Fikhnerae comes from the Tsin-ling range in China, and stands 

 in a section all to itself, having affinities with P. sinensis, but differing 

 in the leaves divided again and again and again. 



P.JUipes is an obscure small-flowered plant from rocks in Bhutan, 

 which may be taken as a form of P. dbcoi 



P. jlaadlaris has only just emerged to recognition as a species ; 

 its nearest relation is tiny androsaceous P. minutissima from great 

 altitudes in Kumaon, Kashmir, and Western Tibet. These species 

 are spreading and stoloniferous, with small starry flowers usually 

 g close upon the tuft. P. jlagdlaris differs from the rest by 

 throwing out long threads., with rooting plant-buds at the end, after 

 the fashion of the Saxifrages jlagdlaris and Brunoniana. 



P. /jlatnitzensis is the natural hybrid of P. minima /P. villosa. 

 It should do:- parentage, resemble the wonderful 



P. Steinii, from P. minima.- P. hirsute. P. jlatnitzensis, however, 

 thanks perhaps to its forbidding name, is unknown in gardens, and 

 yet more certainly in catalogues, although, besides being beautiful, 

 it clearly should be as robust and easy as the other hybrids of similar 

 parentage. It has been, as usual, divided into two named forms, 

 for the two extremes, leaning to P. minima on one hand and to 

 :osa on the other. Of these the one produces only two flowers, 

 and those almost sessile on the little rosettes of roundly wedge-shaped 

 leaves, glandular, dark and toothed at their point. This is the 

 oa-end of the scale, and has been called P. truncata, and also 

 P. Jiraseckiana. The other has scapes very slightly taller, and bears 

 as many as five blossoms on them. The name under which this form 

 occasionally appeared in lists is P. Slurii. The hybrid occurs with 

 its parents on the high moors of Styria, never on the limestone, 

 but no doubt indifferent in cultivation. P. , van Iformis is a false 

 name 



P.jl' I 2 : .morph of P. citrina (see Appendix) 



from the bleak arid mountain region of the upper Hwang Hor. 



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