TWO INTERESTING PRIMULA PLANTS. 309
(II.) ON PRIMULA ELATIOR x VERIS.
Fifteen years ago, I recorded1 in the publications of this
Society the occurrence in Britain (for the first time, so far as
known) of hybrid plants between the "True" Oxlip (Primula
elatior) and the Common Cowslip (P. veris). Kerner had pre-
viously called attention2 to the occurrence of this hybrid on the
Continent. The two species occasionally grow there in close
proximity; but, in spite of this fact, the hybrid in question
Hybrid between Primula elatior and P. veris.
Horningsheath, Suffolk
occurs there so extremely rarely that Kerner was led to remark
on it. The same observation certainly holds good for England.
When I published my original record, I was only able to cite two
occasions on which I had met with examples of this hybrid—in
Madghob's Wood, Saffron Walden, on April 23rd, 1883, and on a
1 Transactions of the Essex Field Club, iii. (1884), pp. 205-206.
2 Oester. Bot. Zeit., xv. (1875), p. 80.