PRIMULA. 



and brilliant, of rich violet -blue, with a yellow or while throat about 

 half an inch long. 



P. mirabilis. in case the name should over clamour for the undoing 

 of purse-strings, is merely An drosace mirabilis, and an object, at that, 

 wonderful only in the egregious measure of its ugliness. 



P. mistassinica is a form of P.farinosa, confined to North America. 



P. 2Iiyabeana t from Formosa, is a new species in the habit and 

 alliance of P. japonica, tall and stalwart, with purple flowers in ample 

 tiers. 



P. modesta is a most pleasant sub-species of P.farinosa, widespread 

 in Japan, and abundant in the high places of Xyo-ho-zan and Xantai- 

 san the Holy. It has precisely the look, the vigour, and heartiness of 

 P. frondosa, but the meal with which the rosette is invested is not 

 silver but golden ; also the scapes are shorter, but the pedicels of the 

 individual blossoms much longer, so that the heads have a far more 

 graceful radii tng look. It should soon be a staying guest in every 

 garden. P. Faurieae is a condensed, dry-ground development of 

 this. 



P. mollis has no place out of doors — a. downy, soft species with 

 small lilac-pink stars in tiers, on stems of 10 inches or so above the 

 much too ample leafage-. 



P. Monbeigii, like P. Dubemardiana, belongs to the sub-shrubby 

 group, and is enviably distinguished in it by also having much larger 

 pink flowers than are there the fashion, even with P. Forrestii. 



P. x montafoniensis is a false name of P. x Heerii, q.v. 



P. Moorcroftiana is a dwarfer form of P. nivalis, q.v. 



P. Mooreana is the very best of the various Primulas grcnvn in 

 gardens under the name of P. cafitata. 



P. mupinensis sits along the lips of the mountain streams on the 

 eastern slopes of the Tibetan Alps. It is a most lovely small gem, 

 in the group of P. petiolaris, making neat tufts of perfectly smooth 

 little green thick leaves about 2 inches long, coarsely and irregularly 

 toothed. The scape rises up 3 or 4 inches, carrying a simple umbel of 

 very large soft-pink flowers, with a funnel-shaped tube, opening out 

 into a wide round face nearly an inch across. 



P. x Muretiana (Moritzi, 1829) and P. x Mureti (Charp., 1846) 

 are both discarded names of P. Dinyana, Lagger, 1839. This is 

 the natural hybrid between P. integrifolia and P. viscosa, which may 

 not uncommonly be found in the Engadine, affecting, very often, 

 moss-cushk'ii^ by waterfalls and other damp places, by no means to 

 the taste of either parent. From P. viscosa it differs in being much 

 dwaifer, with fewer, much larger blooms, larger calyces, and smaller 



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