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The Colours of Primroses

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IN view of the turn given to this discussion by Dr. Heslop Harrison's letter in NATURE of May 19, it may be worth while to state that in the Island of Sark twenty-four years ago, in addition to an abundance of normal primroses, there were also plenty of (a) white, (b) pink, and (c) red flowers. Necessarily there can have been no appreciable difference of altitude.

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PERRYCOSTE, F. The Colours of Primroses. Nature 107, 459 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107459b0

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