C 743 ] 

 Androsace Villosa. Hairy Androsacs* 



C/a/i #»</ Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Involucrum umbellulee. Corolla tubus ovatus: ore glandulofo. 

 Gj#/*. l-locularis, globofa. 



Specific CharaHer and Synonyms. 



ANDROSACE villofa; foliis pilofis perianthiis hirfutis. Sp. 



PL 203. Hort. Kew. 1. 192. «5V0/>. i 7 /. Gzrw. 



n. 202. Jar?. F/. ./£w/?r. /. 332. Mart. Mill. 



DicJ. n. 4. 

 ANDROSACE villofa. Jacq. Collecl. 1. p. 193. *. 12./. 3. £ 



#W ty.i 5 /. 1.798..? 

 ARETIA foliis ovatis villofis, fcapis umbellatis. Holler. Heh. 



n. 620. 

 CHAM^EJASME. Bauh. Hiji. 3. 869. 

 SEDUM alpinum 4. Cluf. Pan. 489. Hift. 2. />. 62. 



Notwithftanding all the pains that Von Wulfen, in Jac- 

 quin's Colle&anea, has taken to eftablifh a diftinclion between 

 his Androsace villofa and Cham<ejafme t we confefs ourfelves 

 ftill to have been at a lofs to decide to which of thefe fpecies our 

 plant belongs, nor can we perfuade ourfelves that the reverend 

 author has latisfactorily eftablilhed a fpecific diftinclion between 

 them. If really different, we fhould be inclined to confider our 

 plant as the one intended by Linnaeus, ScopoLi.and Jacquim 

 in his Flora Auftriaca, under this title, and that figured in 

 Jacquin's Colle&anea, as a new fpecies not noticed by any 

 preceding author. 



The hairinefs of the leaves in the cultivated plant, at leaft, 

 is not at all to be depended upon ; in one we faw laft year at 

 Mr. Loddiges, the leaves were fo thickly covered with long 

 white hairs, as to give the whole a hoary appearance ; in the 



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