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species of Japan is found in China. The Primula flora of the two 

 countries is quite different and distinct, and this is only a particular 

 illustration of the general case. We are too much given to think of 

 China and Japan as one area botanically and horticulturally. Kinship 

 of degree there is between the floras as there is between the peoples 

 of China and Japan, but the floras are not the same. 



Writing as I am about the Japanese species, I wish to state that 

 I am so fortunate as to be able to draw upon the accurate knowledge 

 of the flora of Japan possessed by Mr. H. Takeda, who is now a resident 

 in Britain. He has been so good as to write a critical account of the 

 Primulas of Japan, to be published in the immediate future. My 

 own limited study of Japanese forms endorses the conclusions he 

 arrives at in his story of the species, and what I say here is based 

 upon his work. 



At the outset I give a list of the Japanese species, with 

 their synonyms : 



Japanese Primulas with Limited Synonymy. 



P. cortusoides, Thunb., non Linn. = Sieboldii. 

 P. cortusoides var. amoena, Lindl. = Sieboldii. 

 P. cortusoides var. grandiflora, Verschaffelt = Sieboldii. 

 P. cuneifolia, Ledeb. (Sect. Cuneifolia.) Yezo, Kurile Islands. 

 Also Tschuktschiland and Aleutian Islands. 

 Microforms : 



P. hakusanensis, Franch. Central and Northern Japan. 



P. heterodonta, Franch. Northern Hont6. 

 P. eximia, Greene. (Sect. Nivalis.) Kurile Islands. Also 



Aleutian and Pribilof Islands. 

 P. farinosa var. Faurieae, Miyabe = Faurieae. 

 P. farinosa var. luteofarinosa, Franch. et Sav. = modesta. 

 P. farinosa var. mistassinica, Makino = macrocarpa. 

 P. farinosa subsp. modesta, Pax = modesta. 

 P. Faurieae, Franch. = modesta microform. 

 P. Fauriei, Pax = Faurieae. 

 P. gracilis, Stein == Sieboldii. 

 P. hakusanensis, Franch. = cuneifolia microform. 

 P. Hayaschinei, Petitm. = macrocarpa. 

 P. heterodonta, Franch. = cuneifolia microform. 

 P. hirsuta, Siebold = kisoana. 



P. japonica, A. Gray. (Sect. Candelabra.) Central and Northern 



Hont6, Yezo. Cult. Intro. 1871 Wm. Bull. 

 P. jesoana, Miq., Franch. et Sav. (Sect. Geranioides.) Central 



Japan, Yezo. 



P. yedoensis, Franch. et Sav. 

 P. kisoana, Miq. (Sect. Cortusoides.) S.-W. Japan. P. hirsuta, 



Siebold. 



