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formerly regarded as a passage between P. tibelica and P. sibirica. But if 

 even P. tibelica be still very variable and obscure and abrogated, it is certain 

 that it is separated by a real gulf from P. sibirica. My Da-Tung Primula 

 (F 507), however, though with the saccate bracts of P. sibirica, has something 

 the look of a drawn-up spindlified P. tibelica, being a thin frail plant, with 

 2 or 3 flowers on a 4- to 5-inch stem, richly rosy as in P. rosea, and with a 

 golden ring. It has clearly nothing to do with P. Wardii. 



P. Woodicardii is the prior and proper name of P. bkutea, q.v. 



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