SWISS FLOWERS. 95 



still it is a charming little plant from the contrast between 

 its greyish leaves, growing not in rosettes but in tufts, and 

 its delicate pink flowers, which form a very short umbel 

 springing from the top of a stalk two inches high. Mont 

 Fully, rocks of granite Alps : Ronche, Great St. Bernard, 



RifPel. 



A. lactea is much more commonly found, and at lower 

 heights; it lasts and dries fairly well, like many of the rest 

 of its family ; springs from rosettes, but on branches of 

 from two to three inches high ; is of a pure ivory white, 

 with a yellow throat ; and has at first sight the appearance 

 of a Saxifrage. It is, perhaps, the most common of the 

 Androsaces. Found abundantly on the Jura, Engadine, 

 Alps of Dauphiue, &c. 



75. Aretia. 



(PLATE XLIII.) 



Aretia, Primula, Androsace, or Gregoria Vitaliana, 

 (Fig. 75), for it goes by all these names, has not much 

 the appearance of an Androsace ; for the tubes of its flowers 

 are longer, and the limb does not open widely, so as to 

 conceal it. Tiny as it is, it is shrub-like in its nature ; 

 its brown half- woody branches straggle along the ground. 



