PRIMULA. 



soil at low elevations — so that with us it should probably be treated 

 I fol the warmest of places in the choice bog or under- 

 ground-watered moraine-bed. 



P. x salisburgensis is another of the names given in the long range 

 of hybrids between P. glutinosa and P. minima. The form that 

 typically bears this name is suggestive of P. glutinosa's motherhood, 

 and stands near the form called P. xHuteri, from which it differs in 

 having the leaves wedge-shaped instead of oblong, while the 2- or 3-inch 

 scapes are not sticky (but the variations are endless). The flowers 

 are altogether suggestive of P. glutinosa, but are of a hot red-violet, 

 fewer in the cluster and longer in the tube. Its habit is intermediate, 

 running in a small compass, and forming loosely matted clumps and 

 patches, which have a curious predilection for places much wetter 

 than those liked by either parent — as, for instance, where water is 

 perpetually trickling over a wide level of rock, or diffusing itself across 

 a shallow hollow of the moor. It seems, like others in this range, to be 

 of quite local distribution ; the high bogs of Kraxentrager and Col- 

 bricon seem to contain no other form of the hybrid ; yet there is no 

 sign of it in the Monzoni Thai, where P. x Huteri and P. x biflora may 

 both be found, while P. x Floerkeana blots the blue distances of P. 

 glutinosa with flaring patches of hot amethyst blazing from afar. In 

 cultivation no difficulty attends these crosses, though they are not 

 always more generous than P. glutinosa in flower. There are many 

 forms and shades of them all ; one especially beautiful and dwarf 

 variety of P. x salisburgensis, with large flowers of clear pure pale-blue, 

 I can hardly concede to be P. x salisburgensis at all, as it has neither 

 the points nor the habits, but turns towards the Minima-side of the 

 family. The whole question of names among these hybrids is, how- 

 ever, academic and illiberal ; the two species yield so endlessly variable 

 and fertile a progeny, that there is no use in trying to stereotype any 

 of the forms with rigid certainty, though a few of the more salient 

 states of the more salient may bo singled out for the purposes of con- 

 venience, that their names may indicate well-marked stages of the 

 interbreeding. 



P. x Salisii, Brugger=P. x Berninae, Kerner, q.v. 



P. x Sanctac-Coronae, a form of the hybrid between Primrose and 

 I - indei P. officinalis. 



P. sapphirina has not yet shown a smile to civilisation, though it 

 has several times been coaxed into flower. It is a most dainty gem, 

 tiny in leaf and small in bloom, forming dense clumps of minute toothed 

 oval foliage diminishing to the base and virtually without hair, and 

 sending up numbers of little stems of some 2 inches high, each carrying 



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