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REPORT ON THE 



germs of these two Primrose fungi are of course infectious, cuticle- 

 piercing, and " putrefactive." — Worthington G. Smith, Dunstable, 

 in Gardeners' Chronicle. [For an account of the insects affecting 

 Auriculas, see Gardeners Chronicle, May 5th, 1877, p. 570, fig. 92.] 



CULTIVATED PRIMROSES. 



[The following List of Species is taken from a printed Catalogue, 

 of which copies were sent to the Conference by Mr. Stein, 

 the Curator of the Breslau Botanic Garden.] 



Primula L. 



A. — Sphondylia, Duby. 



1. P. japonica, A. Gray. 



(P. pyramidalis, Siebohl, 1862 (?), not known. 



2. verticillata, Forskahl. 



3. P. Boveana, Decaisne = veHicillata hort. P. verticillata var. 

 abysinnica hort. P. verticillata var. simensis, Masters. P. 

 Courtii, hort., Yeitch. 



4. P. floribunda, Wallich. 



4a. P. prolifera, Wall.= P. itnperialis, hort., nec. Jmighuhn. 



B. — Auganthns, Schott. 



5. P. sinensis Lindley = P. pra-nitem, var. 



5a. P. sinensis x officinalis, Wittmack, verisimiliter erratum. 



C. — Cortusina, Schott. 



6. P. cortusoides, L. 



7. P. gracilis, Stein (P. cortusoides x Sieboldii). 



8. P. Sieboldii, Morren, P. ama>na, hort. nec Marshall v. 

 Bieberstein ; P. coHusoides amccna, hort. 



9. P. mollis, Xuttall. 



10. P. Kaufmanniana, Reyel. 



D. — Sredinskya, Stein. 



11. P. grandis, Trautvetter. 



E. — Primulastrum, Duby, partly. 



12. P. inflata, Lehmann, P. macrocalyx, Bunge, P. uralemis, 

 hort. 



13. P. officinalis, Jacguin. 



11.' x media Peterm. (unicolor, Lanye, P. officinalis x elatior, 

 Muret). 



