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and the capsule a little longer than the calyx. I could 

 find only a few specimens of this plant on the mountains 

 bordering the Val Daone. — Syn. P. daonensis, Leybold. 



The var. Judicarice is a somewhat larger plant with 

 cuueate leaves, coarsely toothed towards the apex, the 

 middle tooth longer and somewhat larger than the rest. 



13. P. ViscosA, All. — There is much confusion in the 

 nomenclature of this Primula. Kerner and Pax retain 

 Allioni's name. Widmer adopts the name of Lapey rouse, 

 P. LATIFOLIA, objecting to the name viscosa as unsuitable, 

 the plant not being particularly viscid ; and he rejects 

 Villar's name of P. hirsuta to avoid confusion with 

 another species, and as not being specially characteristic. 

 Hegetschweiler calls it P. graveolens. I retain the name 

 by which the plant is best known. 



Found widely distributed from the Pyrenees through 

 the chain of the Alps to the 10th degree of E. Longitude. 

 Not common on the Pyrenees or Western Alps. On 

 granite. 



Leaves somewhat flaccid, fraj^rant, without cartilaginous 

 margin, oval, round-oval, oblono-cuneate or lanceolate- 

 cuneate, gradually narrowed into a generally long petiole, 

 from about the middle to the apex acutely-dentate or 

 repand-denticulate, or quite entire, the surface and margin 

 somewhat densely clothed with short glandulose hairs. 

 Glands small, colourless, not reddening the drying paper. 

 Peduncles generally long. Calyx teeth adpressed to tube 

 of corolla. Flowers secund, nodding, violet or reddish 

 violet, throat and interior of tube of same colour. Corolla 

 infundibuliform. Farina rare on the throat of corolla, and 

 very sparingly on the calyx. Anthers of the short-styled 

 flowers set on the throat or a little below it. Capsvile 

 hardly or considerably longer than the calyx. 



The scent is peculiar, and stronger than in other 

 Primulas. It has been compared to the smell of bitumen, 

 or of Geranium robertianum , or of weak musk. 



The plants with the leaves quite entire (in form very 

 similar to those of Cynoglossum vidgare) are from the 

 Maritime Alps. Their flowers are somewhat brighter in 

 colour. 



14. P. PEDEMONTANA, Thom. — Occurs in Piedmont and 



