We may take this opportunity to notice another very distinct 
form into which this plant has varied under cultivation,—that 
known under the name of filicifolia, or the Fem-leaved Chinese 
Primrose, of which both rose-coloured and white forms with 
fringed flowers, are in the possession of Messrs. E. G. Hender¬ 
son, and Son, of St. John’s Wood. This differs from the common 
forms in the foliage, rather than in the flowers, the leaves being 
about twice the usual length, oblong, somewhat narrowed to¬ 
wards the base, broader upwards, and divided in a pinnatifid way 
all along the margin into oblong lobes, which themselves are 
doubly toothed, as in the common states of the species. These 
peculiarities of form and cutting produce a leaf which is not 
inaptly compared with that of a Fern. The variety, like those 
previously known, is, we learn, reproducible true from its seeds. 
There has also recently appeared, in addition to the original 
double-flowered plain and fringed sorts, and the remarkably fine 
double kind figured on the occasion just now referred to, a new 
race of double or semi-double varieties, which it is reported 
are reproducible from their seeds. If this should prove to 
be the case, they will be real acquisitions. These latter are 
known under the names of rubella plena and nivea plena , and 
have been exhibited in public by Mr. Bull, nurseryman, of 
Chelsea. 
The culture of all these several varieties is exactly that of 
the common sort, which has been already described. 
