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from a concealed umbel. The floral bracts are short, never like 

 these of P. calycina, longer than the flower stalks. The corolla 

 is distinctly contracted below into a tube, and expanded above 

 into a salver ; it is never contracted into a cup or goblet, as in P. 

 sikkimensis. The dusting with protective meal is not a distin- 



Fig. 5.— CILIATED AURICULA, Primula ciliata (Flowers yellow). 



guishing feature ; but its abundant appearance as a decorative 

 character of the exhibition flower is strikingly characteristic, and 

 though it may be said that by long-continued crossing and select- 

 ing, its appearance there may be regarded as the work of the 



