206 BALFoUR—NEW SPECIES OF PRIMULA. 
no means exhaust the number of new species of which material 
for description is in our hands. Mr. Craib has recently completed 
an exhaustive study of the Section Petiolaris, and description 
by him of eleven new species will appear shortly in these “ Notes.” 
Many of the species described here are in cultivation, and the 
following have flowered :—P. aerinantha, anisodora, brevicula, 
cardiophylla, conica, crispa, crispata, helodoxa, lacteocapitata, 
Menziesiana, Mooreana, pseudocapitata, pulvinata, redolens, 
Reginella, Roylei, vernicosa. Of those most recently introduced 
are :--P. helodoxa-of the Candelabras with bright yellow flowers : 
P. anisodora of the same Section but too like an Auricula in 
flower for its own sake as a garden plant but with potentialities 
for crossing; P. minor and P. brevicula of the Pulchella series 
are neat dwarf plants and will be valuable in the garden when 
we learn how in our climate to save them from the collar rot 
which seems to attack more or less all species that have a 
Nivalis ancestry ; P. pulvinata and P. redolens are, I fear, likely 
to be difficult in the open as is their relative P. Forrestii: of 
the three Muscarioids, P. aertnantha, P. conica, and P. Menzies- 
tana, the last named is, I think, one of the most charming of its 
Section—a Section containing many delightful species which if 
treated as biennials well reward the care bestowed upon them; 
P. Reginella is like a miniature P. tibetica. 
