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Farreri with small golden-eyed flowers of a rose as brilliant, almost, as 
in P. rosea, jewelling the scant brown turf of the Da-Tung, very locally, 
on only the gauntest summits and aretes, at some 15,000 feet, in June. 
The whole tiny sprout of glossy spoon-shaped foliage is always and 
everywhere powderless, by which, among other details, it can always 
be differentiated at a glance from P. tibetica. And, being so wee, not 
an inch in height, with these lovely little glowing sparks of blossom, 
it must adorn the choicest bog-bed only, in company of such gems as 
the high-alpine Gentians. P. Reginella yielded me an albino, a painting, 
and a photograph in situ. 
P. sibirica (F 507) is not yet distributed, and is quite uncertain 
in name. I do not believe it can be really any form of P. sibirica at 
all, though the saccate tails of its bracts at once put it alongside, and 
differentiate it from, the perfectly tailless-bracted P. Reginella, of which 
otherwise it looks but an elongated vulgarized version from lower 
elevations. For this plant (which shares with the ex-acclamata the 
honour of being P. gemmifera in the Petrograd herbarium), from a 
similar scant clump of two or three lucent-bladed spoon-shaped leaves 
of rich green, sends up a spindly stem of some five inches or less, 
carrying three flowers or so, round and fairly large, of fulminating 
rose-pink with a golden eye. It is not a thing of dazzling merit, though 
really pretty ; but the reason of its not having been collected in 
quantity sufficient for distribution is much more prosaic. For it 
grows only in the fine emerald- green lawns which occasionally occur 
in the beck-glens of the range, not only high above Wolvesden, but 
also low down, at the debouchure of the torrents and fading rills upon 
Tien Tang, Hsi-ling, and Chebson, with the result that the yaks, 
browsing there, have nipped off every seeding stem long before August, 
and no trace of the plant is left. It bequeaths us, though, a painting 
and a photograph. 
P. sinensis (F 734) was the solitary event of the Da-Ba-S'an 
range, and offers little besides the hope that, from so far north of its 
first station at Ichang, it may prove hardier than we have yet known 
it : unless it be the romance that having so far been supposed rigidly 
restricted to the region above Ichang in the gorges of the Yang-dz' 
Jang, we here find it recurring many hundreds of miles distant and 
many a weary week's journey away out in the north-west towards 
Tibet. Of course no flowers, and only painfully few seeds, were 
lingering when I passed the range between Chow Tien and Ming-jang- 
jo in November ; I can only record that P. sinensis loves exactly those 
same arid calcareous cliffs, crannies, and grottos that are specially 
frequented, in just such other cliffs across the world, by P. Allionii 
in the rosy limestones of San Dalmazzo di Tenda. 
P. stenocalyx is F 502, 503, and that F 195 sent in 1914 under the 
apparently mythical empty name of P. cognata. And, take it all 
in all, I expect P. stenocalyx to prove by far the most important of 
the medium-sized Primulas yet introduced from China — judging at 
least from the extraordinary vigour and heartiness and health of the 
