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IN answer to Mr. J. J. Murphy's inquiry in NATURE of May 13 (vol. xii. p. 34) I beg to state that the locality in which, as far as I am aware, no primroses are found, is formed by the outcrop of the chalk in the south of Cambridgeshire and north of Hertfordshire, and is bounded on the north and south by the outcrop of the chalk marl and the edge of the London Basin, and east and west by the Great Eastern and Great Northern main lines; it is, from the nature of the underlying beds, very dry. I have always thought, but perhaps without foundation, that primroses are not generally found in the districts in which cowslips are common, and vice versâ, and Mr. Murphy's remark seems to bear out this.
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FORDHAM, H. Primroses and Cowslips. Nature 12, 87 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012087d0
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