374 Primulacee—Primutla. 
Nos. 1, 2, and 3 are sufficiently explanatory. Selfs are those 
double or single-flowered varieties with a uniformly yellow, 
purple-brown, purple, or violet limb and a white eye. Alpines 
are distinguished by having the margin of two blended colours, 
or at least hy their not being separated into distinct bands, and 
by the yellow centre. 
5. P. Japonica. Japanese Primrose.—This is a very handsome 
hardy species of quite recent introduction. It is glabrous in 
all its parts, having large oblong-spathulate coarsely irregularly 
and sharply-toothed sessile leaves, and tall scapes from 1 to 2 
feet high bearing about 5 or 6 whorls of showy variously- 
coloured flowers about an inch in diameter. There are 
crimson, maroon, lilac, rosy-pink, and white varieties with a 
differently coloured eye already in cultivation. If easily grown 
there is no doubt that this species will rapidly spread, as it is 
one of the most beautiful of dwarf hardy perennials. It is a 
native of the island of Yeso. 
6. P. farinosa, Bird’s-eye Primroge.—This is a mountain 
plant of wide distribution, occurring in the North of England 
and in Scotland. It grows from 4 to 6 inches high, with small 
obovate-spathulate leaves clothed with a white or yellow mealy 
indumentum on the under surface. Scape exceeding the leaves, 
and bearing an umbel of small lilac-red flowers with a yellow eye. 
P. Scotica, found in the extreme North of Scotland, differs 
in its broader petals. 
We might include several more species if we bad the space 
at our disposal, but we must be content with quoting the 
names of a few of the best. They are for the greater part 
mountain plauts, requiring special care and treatment. 
P. cortusoides, rosy flowers, Siberia; P. minima, rose and 
white, Alps; P. Munroi, tall, white, North India; P. villosa, 
purple, Alps; and P. am@na, bright rosy-purple umbellate 
flowers, from the Caucasus. The last is a particularly hand- 
some plant. ‘ 
2, ANDROSACE. 
A genus of diminutive annual or perennial scapose tufted 
herbs, natives of mountainous regions. They agree in most 
characters with Priaula, differing in the tube of the corolla 
being constricted towards the top. There are almost a dozen 
species in the Swiss Alps, and a few others scattered over the 
North of Asia and America. Name from dyjp, a male, and 
oaxos, a buckler, referrine to the shape of the anther. 
