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Thomas Moore described it. Since then the edged flowers have 

 increased in number, and now constitute a race that has all the 

 needful characteristics of a species. The green has proceeded 

 outwards to the margin and settled there ; the stripes have moved 

 in the same direction and formed a ring within the margin ; and 

 the farina has accumulated around the centre to form what is 



Fig. 7.— VARIABLE PRIMULA, Primula commutata (Flowers rosy red). 



termed the paste ; while a rich tone of yellow marks the centre, 

 and gives accent to the green of the primal flower, the result 

 being an arrangment of colours in four orderly masses, three of 

 them in circles of definite geometrical proportions. The Carnation 

 offers a nearly parallel example, for here we see the flakes of the 

 flower moving outward to the edge to fashion the Picotee. It is 



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