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very entire, with extremely small, almost .stalkless, glands 

 set on the pits of the upper surface. Flower stem, bracts, 

 and ealy.x' remarkably black and viscid. Flower stem three 

 or four times longer than the leaves, with five to ten 

 flowers. Peduncles 2 to 5 mm. long. Involucral bracts 

 oblong-linear, often reaching the top of the ealy.x. Calyx 

 3 to 4 nmi. long, cut to the middle ; the teeth narrowly 

 triangular, acuminate. Flowers secund, nodding, red 

 violet ; throat and interior of corolla tube of the same 

 colour. Tube passing gradually into the infuudibuliform 

 corolla. Radius of corolla 6 to 7 mm. long. Divisions of 

 corolla cut to one-tifth of their length. Anthers of .short- 

 styled flowers set a quarter of the length of the tube 

 beneath the throat. Capsule (immature) included in the 

 calyx. 



Discovered by Velenovsky in 188 'J. The above is 

 mainly his description. Widmer says : " P. dcorum re- 

 sembles in the colour of its flowers, and in habit, a 

 diminutive, small-leaved P. latifolia {P. viscosa, AIL). It 

 is certainly a beautiful Primula, but I would much rather 

 give the name Primula of the Gods to one of the Alpine 

 species with numerous large bright flowers, as P. pcdemon- 

 tana, from Mount Cenis ; P. viscosa (P. hirsnf.a, All.), from 

 Faido and Aosta ; P. cali/eina, from Corni di Canzo ; P. 

 spedahilis, from the Ledrothal." r>ut Widmer had never 

 seen the living plant. 



II. Section Farinosse. — Leaves revolute, petioled or 

 sessile, often narrowed into a winged petiole, mem- 

 branaceous, with or without farina, toothed or quite 

 entire ; flowers of middling size or smaller, oftenest blue, 

 or rosy or white, very rarely yellow : bracts more or less 

 lanceolate or subulate, gibbous at the base, or distended 

 towards the base ; capsule cylindrical. 



23. P. SIBIRICA, Jacq. — Occurs in Finland and the north 

 of Sweden and Norway. Leaves roundish or oval, suddenly 

 contracted into the petiole ; involucral bracts oval or oblong, 

 acute or shortly acuminate, very gibbous at the base ; 

 farina none ; calyx cylindrical ; flowers somewhat large, 

 less numerous than in the next species, pale lilac ; segments 

 of corolla cut to one-third or one-half tlieir lengrth. 



