ANDROSACE. 
soil which may have abundance of water in early summer, or moisture 
flowing beneath. There is no necessity to indulge A. lactea with 
shade, so long as its ground is well watered ; this I learned to my 
cost when I thought I sighted it on cool copsy rocks half-way up 
the Wiener Schneeberg, and came all the way down again only to 
find that the object had been Silene alpestris, which, from a dis- 
tance, it certainly does superficially resemble in manner and habit. 
But then, toiling in torrid midday up that mountain again, I 
suddenly found the genuine Androsace abundant in the hot and stony 
turf at the top, close beneath the Empress Elizabeth’s chapel, among 
Dianthus alpinus and the Primulas Auricula and P. Clusiana. 
A. lactiflora, however, lest any one should fall into confusion, is 
that pretty annual or biennial species which gardeners often know as 
A. coronopifolia (A. Chaixii is another smaller and inferior Andraspid). 
Nor is this so very unlike the style of the last, though quite inferior in 
size and grace of blossom. For from the large and ample rosette 
of toothed leaves spring many stems of many white flowers in a 
graceful fountain. It is of the easiest culture, of course, in dryish 
open poor soil, and seeds like cress. But A. armeniaca, from alpine 
Armenia, is still prettier, a neat little dwarf thing, with tidy rosettes, 
and heads of white flowers twice the size of Albana’s. 
A. Laggert. See A. carnea. | 
A. lanuginosa is among our most precious and universal rock- 
garden ornaments, loving a light sandy soil in a warm exposure, and 
thence trailing far and wide its prostrate shoots of pure silver, from 
which through all the later summer—so precious an advantage— 
arise the Verbena-like heads of soft rose-lilac, beautifully adapted for 
contrast with the violet and lavender autumn crocuses upspringing 
through the slack tissue of its gleaming sprays, but not really fitted, 
so rampant is its scale, for any companionship but those of bulbs. 
A. lanuginosa comes from medium elevations in the North-western 
Himalayas, but is perfectly hardy and vigorous anywhere in our 
islands. It can easily be struck from cuttings, and there is a variety 
A. Leichtlinit in which the flowers are whitish, with distinct eyes of 
crimson or yellow, appearing in the same umbel. 
A. longifolia. See under A. sempervivoeides, and Appendix. 
A. macrantha is one of the best among the annual Andraspids. It 
is like an enlarged Armeniaca, with big rosettes of toothed leaves, and 
bare stems of some 5 inches or so, carrying a profusion of white flowers 
rather more than half an inch across. (Alpine Turkish Armenia.) 
A. Matildae, a most curious and precious Aretia, confined to the 
summit rocks of Amaro and the Gran Sasso d’Italia in the Abruzzi, 
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