PRIMULA. 



stand up scapeless the single noble blossoms of lavender-blue. While 

 the no less dainty P. Hooker i belongs to the group of P. petiolaris, 

 P. Stiftoniana finds its affinities among those other wee high-alpine 

 treasures, P. minutissima and P. reptans. 



P. stricta (which is also, though in part only, P. Hornemanniana, 

 Lehm.) is no more than a smaller and poorer P.farinosa from sub- 

 arctic Europe, lacking the meal of the type. 



P. Stuartii has bred a great deal of confusion in lists, which can 

 now be finally cleared away by realising that there is no purple or 

 " purpurea. " form of Stuartii, which is a uniformly yellow-flowered 

 species, a copy of P. sikkiinensis, growing in running watercourses, 

 and for precisely the same needs and of the same value in England. 

 All purple-flowered pretenders that bear this name belong to P. nivalis, 

 and will there be found described. 



P. x Stnrii is the first branch of the hybrid between P. minima 

 and P. villosa, for which see P. xflatnitzensis. 



P. suaveolens is P. Columnae, q.v. 



P. x Suebtitzii is a garden cross between P. denticulata and P. rosea. 

 It has interest, but no beauty or value. 



P. sujfrutescens adds another to the few valuable American species. 

 It is an undershrub of high exposed positions in the Central Rockies, 

 and is hardy and easy in cultivation, as much more so than P. Rusbyi 

 as the plant itself is more beautiful — in warm sandy, stony, and well- 

 drained peat, in a sheltered and warm situation, where it will run 

 about, making long prostrate branches thickly set all along with 

 abundance of narrow long leaves, green and glossy, swelling to ampli- 

 tude at their ends, and there more or less sharply toothed or scalloped. 

 From the ends of all these shoots rise up in early summer tall bare 

 stems that seem a little excessive in height and gawky from a mass so 

 humble, carrying loose heads of most brilliant aniline-pink flowers 

 with a golden eye, suggesting a reminiscence of P. rosea, but lacking 

 that flaming purity of violent clear rose. 



P. szechuanica has the hyacinthine persuasion and lush habits of 

 P. Maximowiczii, but is much less valuable, its stems not greatly ex- 

 ceeding the leaves, and carrying smaller flowers from larger calyces. 

 It is little more than a weaklier yellow P. Maximowiczii of divergent 

 habit (Purdom, 1910). 



P. taliensis belongs to the group of P. petiolaris, which it helps to 

 replace in China, though not in cultivation ; and quite inadequately 

 anywhere, not having any sort of endowment for sustaining a role so 

 arduous, or competing with P. Winteri, though in itself a pretty thing. 

 But the whole group of Chineso Petiolarids yet awaits much fuller 



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