90 WHITE TO GREEN 



SWEET ANDROSACE 



Aiidrosact' CJiaiiurjasiiie. Primrose Family 



Stems: slender. Leaves: in more or less open rosulate tufts, one-nerved, 

 ovate. Flowers: in capitate umbels. 



The sweet smell of these delicate little clustered blossoms, 

 that grow from one to three inches above the soil and fill the 

 air with fragrance, is most attractive. Their primrose-like petals, 

 of creamy or pinkish hue, look up with yellow eyes to greet 

 each passer-by, while rosulate tufts of tiny narrow leaves are 

 set about the slender stems. 



ALPINE ANDROSACE 



An if rosace scptoitrioitalis. Primrose Family 



Stems: slender, many-flowered. Leaves: rosulate, lanceolate. Flowers: 

 calyx-tube obpyramidal, with subulate, acute, green lobes; corolla-lobe 

 obovate, longer than the calyx. 



A very different species from the foregoing one, having 

 much branched, thread-like stems, bearing numerous tiny 

 white flowers. 



STAR-FLOWER 



Tricnialis ylz/irr/ia/ia. Primrose Family 



Rootstock creeping, sending u]) many stem-like brandies, which are 

 naked below, the leaves all in a verticil ot li\e to ten at tiie sunnuit. 

 Leaves: membranous, lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, .sessile. Flowers: 

 .solitary or few, calyx usually of seven sepals; corolla wheel-shaped, of 

 .seven i)etal-like .segments. 



The jiretty blossoms of this Star-flower arc generally white, 

 though sometimes tinged with mauvish-pink, and so grace- 

 full)' are they ]:)()ised on slender stalks above a whorl of 

 l^ointed leaxes that every puff of wind blows them gently to 

 and fro. The nimiber seven recurs with marked frec|uency in 

 this particular plant, — the caly.\ is seven-parted, the corolla 



