PRIMULA. 



as a hybrid between P. farinosa and P. longi flora. The attribution 

 is extremely doubtful, and the specimen had better be taken as an 

 abnormality in P. longi flora, which is almost incapable, being homo- 

 style, of interbreeding with the heterostyle P. farinosa. 



P. Lacei is among the most beautiful of the SufTruticose group, 

 and, whether hardy or not, ought certainly to be procured. In the 

 shaded limestone rocks of Baluchistan it forms woody masses with 

 branches clad in the relics of bygone leafage, and ending in the rosette 

 of the current year, made up of quite small pointed-oval spoon-shaped 

 leaves, barely more than an inch in length. These are in themselves 

 of beauty sufficient, being felted in gold or silver wool, but their 

 cushioned clumps are hidden by abundance of wide clear primroses 

 of citron -yellow, enormous on the tiny amassed tufts, each springing 

 from the crown on a stem so short as hardly to be a stem at all, so that 

 the whole mound is sheeted in colour. Its habit and habitat alike 

 indicate care. 



P. lacto-capitata. See under P. capitata. 



P. latifolia (Lapeyr., 1S13) = P. viscosa, All., 17S5, q.v. 



P.xLaxii is a false name for P. xflotnitzensis. q.v. 



P. x Lebkana is a name for a supposed natural hybrid between P. 

 auricula and P. Wulfeniana, which is not at present to be believed. 



P. leptopoda was found by Prince Henri d' Orleans on the road 

 between Batang and Lhasa.. It has doubtful affinities with the 

 Farinosa group, and may best be taken as an improved version of 

 P. algida, from which it differs in larger flowers with longer tubes, no 

 less than in foliage not so much toothed, and clothed on the upper 

 surface in very minute warty glandular down. The leaves are 6 inches 

 long or so, and the close head of large blooms stands up on a stem of 

 about two and a half. The lobes of the corolla are deeply twy-cleft, 

 and the divisions are again cloven, so that the blossoms have the 

 effect of having twenty segments. It is really P. stenocalyx. 



P. leucophylla is an Oxlip of the Eastern Carpathians and Caucasus 

 in the meadows of the mountain limestones. The form P. I. Ruprechtii. 

 a pure Caucasian, is very handsome and full-faced in the pale-yellow 

 flower, but the other branch into which the species divides, P. I. 

 longipe-s of the Carpathian limestones, is singularly worthless, with 

 narrow little tubular obscurities hardly emerging from the calyx. In 

 no case, however, has the species any high importance in the garden. 



P. lichiangensis wears the crumpled foliage of Cortusa, but the 

 blooms are borne on tall stems of 8 inches or so, far above the low 

 huddle of leaves, and staring boldly about as if they had no shame 

 in the lilac-magenta of their colour. The species is closely akin to 



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