carpets the rocks with sheets of the most lovely rose-purple, 
and is the choicest of all Alpines known to me. 
Dzscr. A small, densely-tufted alpine, forming low mossy 
patches six inches broad and upwards, much branched; 
branches one inch long. Leaves crowded, rosulate, one-eighth 
to one-fourth of an inch long, linear-oblong, or oblong-obovate, 
obtuse, ciliate with forked hairs, and more or less pubescent. 
Flowers excessively numerous, solitary at the ends of the 
branchlets ; peduncles short, slightly swollen at the base of 
the calyx, nearly glabrous. Calyx campanulate, five-lobed to 
the middle; lobes ovate, obtuse, ciliate, and slightly pu- 
bescent. Corolla white with a faint yellow eye, one-third of 
an inch in diameter ; tube short, subglobose ; lobes obovate, 
emarginate. Stamens included. Ovary subglobose, stigma 
capitate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, leaf; fig. 2, flower; fig. 8, corolla laid open: fig. 4, calyx; fig. 5, 
ovary :—all magnified, 
