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lips with coloured flowers also ; the state of the case being doubtless, 
as suggested, that natural cross-breeding with other Primule grown in 
the garden had occurred.. M. Boreau is quite prepared to admit the 
hybrid origin of this P. variabilis, which is, it cannot be doubted, 
identical with our common British Oxlip, the plant which was called 
P. elatior by English authors up to a comparatively recent date. It 
is tolerably plentiful, he says, in some of the departments of Central 
France, and’ is doubtless, as Goupil attempts to show, the original 
stock from which many of the Primule grown in gardens have been 
derived. As a specimen of our author's critical notes, we extract that 
which relates to the Linneean Tormentilla reptans. 
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“This is a critical plant, with hich +h rJ a d : 
which the true characters are far from being well-defined, and these we will 
tilla reptans only in England, we may with confidence refer to it as a synonym 
the P. procumbens, Sibth. Oxon. 162. This plant, according to the English 
botanists, has elongated stems, spreading, but not rooting, coyered, as is 
whole plant, and especially the under side of the leaves, with adpressed tolera- 
either entire or lobed, and the solitary peduncles surpass the leaves. 
sepals are hairy and ovate, the outer ones longer, and ovate-lanceolate, the 
petals obcordate, moderately large, in colour golden-yellow, and the carpels are 
: : ; kshire, is 
‘doubtless also the P. decumbens, Fries, Novit. Fl. Suec. 165, which, according 
and Pugillus nonus, p. 20) described under the name of P. italica, quoting 
with doubt, as a synonym, T. reptans, Bert. Fl. Ital, a Tuscan plant, W ss 
he says, differs from procumbens by its bright green colour, stems never 
oblong-obovate leaflets, with silvery hairs and deep forward-pointing, not spread: 
ing teeth. These characters belong exactly to the English P. procumbens. i 
may conclude safely that Lehmann’s P. nemoralis differs from the nglish 
plant. The P. procumbens which I have received from Piedmont, in = 
much resembles the English plant, though the flowers are smaller, and this 1 
also the case with the German plant of Reichenbach’s sets of specimens. —— 
“2. P. nemoralis, Nestl. Monog. p. 65 (for the greater part). Pi Ne 
riana Tratt. Ros. iv. p. 75. P. procumbens, Koch, Syn. ed. 2, P. 239, 
“stems, which take root in the autumn, the steam-leaves mostly with three mode- — 
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