Part 143 - Primula identification notes and 1937 mixtures at Lussing La

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SUMMARY:
Notes reconsidering identifications of Primula specimens, suggesting 1937 L+S mixtures (3433–3437) are P. strumosa × P. calderiana hybrids rather than tsariensis, and discussing affinities among P. Barnardoana, elongata, involucrata, and alpicola. Mentions observations at Lussing La and references comments by Fletcher and a possible need to await Prof. Brown.

CONTENT:
Words of Fletcher rather hint that P. nepalensis may be P. strumosa. It may be that some of the specimens here which answer to nepalensis, in which case it should be washed out. My mixtures in 1937, under the numbers L+S 3433, 3434, 3435, 3436 were put down as P. tsariensis, & P. strumosa, & 3437 as Calderiana. But I think a better identification would have been P. strumosa & P. Calderiana hybrids. The real tsariensis are smaller plants, and the coarse growth of either P. strumosa or P. Calderiana, which was copied in these hybrids, was predominant. P. Calderiana is one, I think this is P. strumosa, the other. I got the same mixture in 1937, where P. strumosa
Perhaps P. strumosa will yet appear in masses, but it is not yet evident.

[Certainly everything I have taken so far can be called the same]
as showed those of Rotundifoliae, or not. In my opinion P. Barnardoana & elongata are the same.

enclose the flowers like bud scales before the flowers open.
than the second, which however is much further on. Must one now wait for Prof. Brown
identified. Knowing nothing of such things, I would say they must both be called involucrata,
a pink or white form, or any orangeing washed out.
are occasionally seen. Lussing La.

here. Have seen hundreds of old scapes, but only 1 bunch.
now.
now.

unshakable from P. alpicola v. luna which it closely resembles, but the two facts that i) it has no farinaceous eye, &
ii) alpicola has a very large bunch of leafy bracts, absent here. alpicola bracts enclose the whole
flowering head when in bud. Also found Lussing La. Tsampa.

only differences seem to be larger calyx & different habitat. Must get more.

the more worthy of specific rank it seems - much more so than some others.