Primulaceae

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  • a family of herbaceous and woody flowering plants, commonly known as the primrose family (but not related to the evening primrose family). The group is worldwide in distribution, including in the Old World tropics, throughout the Americas, and in temperate and colder regions of the Northern Hemisphere; many members are Arctic or Alpine. The family underwent significant taxonomic revision and includes the now disbanded families Maesaceae, Myrsinaceae, and Theophrastaceae, according to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group IV (2016).

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        27 Archival description results for Primulaceae

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        Copy transcription of a letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour to George Forrest
        GB 235 FRG/1/1/1/1905/9i · Item · 13/02/1905
        Part of George Forrest Collection

        Letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, to George Forrest in Yunnan dated 13 February 1905.
        Balfour apologises for not writing earlier. "Today I am happy in being able to tell you that your case of plants has arrived - and what a treat you have given me! I know something of the difficulties of collecting but my experience of obstacles pales before your description of the conditions under which you have had to work. Yet what a result! Yous specimens are splendid and their interest botanically intense."
        Balfour goes on to discuss some Primulas, including Primula japonica and Primula muscarioides (new to Balfour); Rhododendrons, including Rhododendron campylocarpum, and others unknown to Balfour. Saxifraga, Cassiope, Gentians, Corydalis, Clematis, Viburnum, Lonicera, Eukianthes, Pieris, Plumbago, Fritillaria, Lilium, Berberis, Polygonum, Trollius, Cornus, and Orchids including Cypripedium.
        Balfour reassures Forrest that his collecting and accounts are all excellent, and finishes with a small update from Edinburgh: Tagg has just returned from a trip to Australia and the Treasury is appointing a committee to go into the whole question of our Herbarium and the necessary accomodation there and this I hope will result in immediate action. Mr. Jeffrey, Miss Traill and others continue to work there as heretofore.

         Forrest, George
        Copy letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Edinburgh, to A.K. Bulley
        GB 235 FRG/1/1/1/1906/12 · Item · 20/08/1906
        Part of George Forrest Collection

        Copy letter from Isaac Bayley Balfour, Edinburgh, to A.K. Bulley, Ness, dated 20 August 1906.
        Balfour writes to explain his reasons for rejecting a proposal by The Co-operative Bees Ltd. for a system of plant exchange. Balfour prefers that the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh be treated as a purchasing customer. He will send Meconopsis bella and Primula reidii once the former has flowered.
        Plants referenced: Meconopsis; Primula
        Letter fire damaged and paper is very brittle; handle with care.

         Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley
        Cicely M. Crewdson Collection
        GB 235 CRE · Collection · 1935 - 1964

        1 photo album marked 'Vol 2' containing 42 prints of alpine plants; 2 separate prints mounted on card (Cyclamen repandum and Primula reidii); and 3 RHS certificates dated 1947, 1959, and 1964

         Crewdson, Cicely Maud