Small streams come cascading down between them, their foaming margins brightened with gay primulas, gilias, and mimuluses.

Her merchandise, which consisted of half a dozen pots of pink and white primulas, a few spotted or crimson cyclamen, sundry lettuce and cauliflower plants, and some roots of pansies and daisies, was grouped around her.

[Illustration: The Tree-Bearer] The primulas and cyclamen, though their pots were shrouded in pinafores of white paper skilfully calculated to conceal any undue lankiness of stem, left us unmoved.

Standing apart from Grand'mere's primulas and cyclamen as though, conscious of its own inferiority, it did not wish to obtrude, it had looked dejected, miserable.

Little primulas and saxifrages sheltering in cracks in the rocks, with nothing but bunches of brown leaves to show them up.

The Cultivated species of primula.

Yet she was lovely and we named her Maud, And if she ate the primulas, 'twas nought.

The only really delightful things we saw during our doleful excursion were a lovely clump of big, rose-coloured primula, drooping from the clefts of a steep rock, and a pair of large and handsome kingfishers, pursuing their graceful avocations by a roadside pooltheir white breasts, ruddy flanks, and gleaming blue backs giving a welcome note of colour to the sedate and misty grey of the landscape.

On our left the mountain rose bare and steep, fringed with a few straggling bushes, and here and there a clinging patch of rose-coloured primula.

The little streams that rushed down the hillsides were fringed with maidenhair fern, lighted up here and there with a bunch of pink primula or a tiny cluster of dog violets.

Emerging from the pines, we crossed a grassy slope covered with tall primulas (P. denticulata) of varying shades of mauve and lilac, and sat down for a bit among the flowers while the shikaris looked for game.

Distances seem short in this brilliant air, but we walked for a long while over the short turf, flushing crimson with primulas and golden with small buttercups, and then over snowy hillocks, before we reached the solid ice of the great glacier.

In the foreground the earth, still brown, and only just released from its long winter covering of snow, bore masses of small golden ranunculus and rose-hued primulas.

Large-flowered, white anemones; tiny gentian, with vivid small blue blossoms; loose-flowered, purple primulas, and many strange and novel blossoms starred the grassy patches, or filled the rocky crevices with abundant beauty.

These require the same treatment as Primulas.

See "Primulas," and "Streptocarpus." Primulas.

See "Primulas," and "Streptocarpus." Primulas.

PRIMULA officinalis.

16 Aretia vitaliana Primrose aretia l. 17 Androsace villosa Hairy Androsace l. 18 Primula cortusoides Bear's-ear Primrose b.l. 19 villosa Hairy Primula b.l. 20 nivea Snowy ditto b.l. 21 marginata Margined ditto b.l.

16 Aretia vitaliana Primrose aretia l. 17 Androsace villosa Hairy Androsace l. 18 Primula cortusoides Bear's-ear Primrose b.l. 19 villosa Hairy Primula b.l. 20 nivea Snowy ditto b.l. 21 marginata Margined ditto b.l.

Common Yellow Auricula b.l. 23 lonigfolia Long-leaved ditto b.l. 24 helvetica Swiss ditto b.l. 25 Primula integrifolia Entire-leaved Auricula b.l. 26 Cortusa Mathioli Siberian Bear's-ear Sanicle b. 27 Soldanella alpina Alpine Soldanella b.l. 28 Dodecatheon Meadia American Cowslip b.l.

PRIMULA officinalis.

PRIMULA vulgaris.

PRIMULA elatior.

PRIMULA farinose.