PRIMULA. 



P. x valbonae (Gusmus), one of his four superfluous names for the 

 hybrid between P. minima and P. spectabilis, whose type-name may 

 be P. xfratensis, but which is better known under its branch-names of 

 P. x Facchinii and P. xDumoulinii. See under P. x Facchinii. 



P. x valmenona, a false name of Gusmus for his own P. x Venzoi, q.v. 



P. x variabilis : forms of the hybrid between P. acaulis and P. 

 officinalis. 



P. x varians, another extra name of Gusmus. See under P. x 

 Facchinii. 



P. x variiformis, another extra name of Gusmus. See under P. x 

 jJatnitzensis. 



P. Yeitchiana, like P. chartacea, approaches the Sinensis group in 

 handsome round-bladed leaves, definite in outline and devoid of 

 hair ; but the habit of growth and beauty of blossom seem to lead 

 on towards P. Davidii. They are both, at present, unknown and 

 ungrown. 



P. Veitchii is a stalwart and gorgeous species of the Woodland 

 group, quite easy to grow and quite hardy. It has the typical lobed 

 ample leaves of the section, crinkled and veined, with many tall stems, 

 carrying whorl over whorl of large golden-eyed flowers of a colour 

 which its admirers call lively and brilliant, and its detractors, the 

 most crude and remorseless magenta in the race. It is usually 

 therefore to be seen grouped at exhibitions in close association 

 with the pure fire-scarlet of Habranthus pratensis ; it is rumoured 

 that many a venerable Chelsea pensioner has been blasted into 

 blindness by the spectacle thus offered. 



P. x venalensis is a superfluous name of Gusmus for P. x Steinii, q.v. 



P. x ventricosa is a superfluous name of Gusmus for nobody knows 

 what . 



P. x venusta is a natural hybrid between P. auricula and P. carniolica 

 — a fertile parent itself, and most variable in form, differing from P. 

 carniolica chiefly in the possession of meal, and from P. auricula 

 in the rosy, crimson, purple, or brownish colouring of its flowers. It 

 is invariably offered in catalogues, but the true primary cross is 

 almost, if not always, there represented by secondaries or tertiaries — 

 if indeed by anything that has even so remote a legitimist right to 

 bear the style of P. x venusta at all, the name by now having become 

 almost as blurred as that of P. x pubescens. It is quite possible that 

 the very lovely blue-purple Auricula form called P. " decora " may 

 belong to this group, while there is no doubt about the parentage of 

 the smaller-floweied yet more brilliant P. x marven, with heads of 

 round sapphire-violet blossoms with a powdered eye, which represents 



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