PRIMULA. 



doors. For in the Javan land of Cornwall it is grown in beds, and even 

 in Yorkshire it will blossom in the open, though here the amplitude, 

 indeed, of its Japonica-like foliage is fine (though no finer than 

 Japonica's), but the tiered tall spikes of rich golden-yellow flowers 

 cannot be expected to reach their full magnificence unprotected. It 

 should be grown in the very rich and humid conditions beloved by 

 P. japonica. and, in cold climates, potted roomity in fat soil to show its 

 splendour more happily indoors. 



P. Inayatii flutters at present, like a malicious butterfly, just out 

 of reach of man's hand, here and there to be seen flourishing in 

 botanical collections, but there guarded as if it were the " di'mond 

 jewelleries of Pharaoh's Ma " that it is really hardly worth. The leaves 

 in their tuft are about 10 inches or a foot in length, narrowly-oblong, 

 membranous, irregularly scallop-toothed at the edge, and yellow- 

 powdered below, with a reddish stem to each, along which, in flaps, 

 the leaf continues, till the outline of the foot-stalk is blurred. The 

 scape stands boldly up, but above the excessive length of foliage and 

 on the tall stem the flowers are not such in size as to justify this bold- 

 ness, or qualify it as anything but "bragian." For they are rather 

 small and funnel-shaped in themselves ; and, for so lavish a growth, 

 little more than a derision, even if not lacking in beauty of their own. 

 It lives in moist rocks high in Hazara. 



P. x incerta is one of Gusmus' four false names for P. Ileerii, q.v. 



P. incisa belongs to the noble, dainty, and glorious section of the 

 great-belled Soldanella group. It has a tuft of hairy stalked leaves, 

 about 2 inches long in all to start with, but then developing the leaf- 

 stalk to another inch or so. The leaves themselves are deeply toothed 

 and gashed as in the Bella -sect ion, and from the tuft rises a scape 

 of 3 or 4 inches, swinging a little chime of royally blown-out bells of 

 pink or violet, with deeply-cloven lobes. It lives in the upper wood- 

 region of Omei, Moupin, Tatsienlu, and should have the reverent 

 observation that attends all this miff}' gathering of loveliness, the 

 most delicate of the race, craving for porous moist soil in summer 

 and perfect dryness in winter. 



P. Infundibulum, in the Petrograd Herbarium, reveals a very 

 lovely small species of the Szeohwanese Alps, close on whose close 

 fcuffeta protrude single enormous funnels of roseate flower. 



P. integn 'folia, L., is a species abundantly to be seen on the high 

 moors of the Engadine, and away to the Voraarlberg in the East and 

 the Pyrenees in the West, usually on the granites, but occasionally 

 on the limestones too. In the high turf it forms running clumping 

 masses and lawns of broad-leaved rosettes, brightish green and close 



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