ANDROSACE. 
A. primuloeides and A. sarmentosa. It is a high-alpine from Hazara, 
with a dense rosette of oblong rather pointed leaves, all the same 
length, and shaggy at first with long snow-white hairs, but then going 
bald. This rosette sends out runners, and the stalks are hardly 2 
inches high, carrying three to six flowers in a head. 
A. x Escheri marks a dim and doubtful record of a hybrid between 
A. obtusifolia and A. Chamaejasme. 
A. flavescens stands far away from the rest of its group in the 
matter of colour. For this species closely resembles A. primuloeides 
(the true species), forming a mat, bright green, of neat rosettes, emitting 
stolons. The leaves are nearly an inch long, and the graceful 2- to 
7-inch stems are as green as they. But the whole clump is clad in a 
fine silk; and the flowers, about the same size as those of Primu- 
loeides, are carried in heads of about ten or more on graceful stalks, 
and are of a pale yellow. (Keria Pass, North-west Tibet.) 
A. foliosa, Duby, seems not to be in general cultivation, despite the 
incessant offer of it by catalogues, which invariably, by foliosa, mean 
the true A. strigillosa, Franch. (A. foliosa, Klatt), which usually occurs 
a little lower down in the same column. The genuine species is much 
smaller in habit than strigillosa, and with flowers finer and larger ; it is 
a rosette-plant of the sarmentosa group, with perfectly smooth foliage, 
and at the top of an 8-inch stem a bunch of lilac-coloured flowers about 
half an inch across. At their base the leaves, hardly forming a proper 
rosette, draw down to a sort of prolonged semi-leaf of a foot-stalk, 
which enfolds or sheaths the stock. The stems and pedicles are downy, 
while the smooth leaves have a fringe of hair and are oval, about 1} 
inch long, ending in a point. The crown emits runners, from fat bare 
dark stems. (North-west Himalaya.) 
A. glacialis. See A. alpina. 
A. globifera is a curious tiny member of the Aretia group from 
Kumaon, which perhaps belongs more nearly to the Chamaejasmes, 
and should prosper with care in the select moraine. It forms a loose 
branchy mat of many little rosettes exactly like wee balls, not more 
than one-sixth of an inch through, smooth outside, but woolly inside, 
with a dense mass of leaves, of which the outer ones, when young, end 
in a tuft of white hair and are sharp, but follow the fashion of human 
life in becoming blunted and bald as they grow older. The small stems 
are twice the length of the leaves, each carrying one pink flower, 
almost, if not quite, as large as the green pilule from which it just 
arises. However, sometimes two flowers are found, and thus threaten 
to transfer A. globifera to the Chamaejasme group. 
A, Halleri. See under A. carnea. 
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