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TWO INTERESTING PRIMULA PLANTS.
By MILLER CHRISTY, F.L.S.
(/.) AN UNUSUAL PHYLLODIC ABERRATION
OF THE PRIMROSE.
ABOUT the middle of February 1898, our Vice-President,
Mr. E. A. Fitch, F.L.S., of Brick House, Maldon, discover-
ed in Hazeleigh Hall Wood, a plant of the Common Primrose
(Primula acaulis), which bears very remarkable phyllodic flowers,
though normal in all other respects.
Fig. 1. Uncommon phyllodic aberration of the Primrose.
Hazeleigh Hall Wood, Essex.
Phyllodic flowers are produced not uncommonly in many
species of plants, especially in those belonging to the genus
Primula. Everyone is familiar with the common cultivated
phyllodic variety of the Primrose and Polyanthus, in which each
sepal is developed into a miniature green leaf, sometimes as
much as, or more than, an inch in length. These leaves sur-
round, and often project beyond, the corolla. Phyllody of the
calyx is also found occasionally in the flowers of the Primrose
and the "True," or "Bardfield," Oxlip (P. elatior) when growing