distinguished. Asa rule, however, A. lanuginosa is a far 
more densely silky plant, almost silvery-white, with a tufted 
habit, spreading branches, and very leafy runners that branch 
again and again; its leaves too are more acute. Choisy 
reduces lanuginosa to sarmentosa, not even considering it to be 
a variety ; but I cannot think that he would have done this 
had he had sufficient materials to work with. 
Descr. More or less clothed with lax, spreading, silky 
hairs. Stem very short. Runners numerous from the axils 
of the leaves, spreading all round, four to six inches long, 
declinate, red-purple, quite leafless except at the tips, which 
bear heads of rosulate leaves. Leaves rosulate, densely 
crowded, the lower on the very short stem smaller, imbricate, 
and recurved, the upper one to two inches long, oblanceolate, 
obtuse, narrowed into the short petiole. Seape usually solitary, 
erect, many-flowered. nvolucre of many leaflets, which are 
extremely variable in shape and size, sometimes small and 
linear, at others broad and leaf-like. Pedicels slender. Calyz- 
lobes oblong, obtuse. Corolla one-third to two-thirds of an 
inch in diameter, rose-coloured, deeper towards the disk, 
which is pale yellow; mouth almost closed by the thickened 
scales; lobes rounded, quite entire. Capsule oblong, longer 
than the calyx.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, corolla laid open: 3 laid open, showing the 
pistil :—all magnified. oo ae : 
