198 History o/ Primula malacoides, Francliet 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 



PLATE XI. 



Figs. 1 and 2. Primula malacoides grown at Kew in 1912, very similar to the plant as 



originally introduced. 

 Fig. 3. White variety which appeared at Messrs Sutton and Sons in 1912. 

 Fig. 4. A deep coloured form flowered at Kew in 1914. 

 Figs. 5, 6, 7. Stages in doubling Fig. 7 being a complete double, see Fig. 11, from Messrs 



Bussell in 1912. 

 Fig. 8. An enlarged drawing of the flower seen in Fig. C, cut open to show the extra 



segments developed from the connective of the anther. 

 Figs. 9 and 10. Details of the development of the perianth-segments from the connective. 

 Fig. 11. An enlarged drawing of Fig. 8, the perianth cut open showing a complete inner 



perianth and further developments commencing from the anthers. 



Fig. 12. An extra segment and anther from the flower represented in Fig. 11. 



Fig. 13. A large fimbriated flower grown at Kew in 1914 the flower measured 2 35 cm. in 



diameter. 

 Fig. 14. The calyx of the above magnified showing the toothed margins of the segments. 

 Fig. 15. A flower showing incipient lobes in the sinuses. 

 The drawings are by Miss M. Smith. 



PLATE XII. 



Flowers from a group of seedling plants of P. malacoides exhibited by Messrs R. L. Eussell, 

 Nurserymen, Richmond, at the Royal Horticultural Society's show, April 9th, 1912. The 

 plants were raised at Cedar Nursery, Ham, and selected from a batch of 15,000 plants. 



All the flowers are natural size. 



Fig. 1. Flowers showing early stages in flmbriation. 



Figs. 2 and 3. Early stages of doubling with two more or less completely double flowers. 



Fig. 4. A flower with the segments conspicuously fimbriated. 



Fig. 5. Three flowers showing an attempt to produce outgrowths from the sinuses. 



Fig. 6. Three large single flowers measuring 2*2 — 2*35 cm. in diameter. 



Photographed by C. P. Raffill. 



