ANDROSACE. 
obtusifolia var. aretioeides, occurs on dolomitic limestone in the _ 
Vajolon valley under the wall of King Laurin’s Rose-garden. 
A. Pachert. See A. Wulfeniana, of which it is a later synonym. 
A. x pedemontana is a natural hybrid between A. carnea and A. 
obtustfolia, which has occurred in gardens and been recorded from the 
Alps of Piedmont. It resembles a small A. obtusifolia, but the leaves 
are vaguely toothed (instead of being perfectly entire, as in all Androsaces 
of the villosa-sarmentosa group) and keeled underneath, while the calyx 
is smooth and not hairy. The flowers appear to be white, and differ 
also from those of A. carnea in projecting upon their little foot-stalks 
* even in the blossoming stage, instead of forming a closer head. | 
A. Poissonii forms loose mats of shoots very short, not more than 
1 to 1} inch, each ending in globules of foliage, piled one above 
another, standing supported on columns of withered remains, the 
outer leaves having the transparent hairs of A. Chamaejasme, and the 
inner ones, at least those in the uppermost globule, being bluish green. 
All the leaves are rounded and eyelashed, thus differing from A. 
globifera (with which it has been confused), as well as in having no 
wool anywhere, but only hairs upon its leaves, which are not smooth 
outside ; the flowers also have no scape and seem to be almost sitting 
upon the pilules of foliage, as in A. helvetica. (Jurkia Pass in the 
Sikkim-Himalaya, &c.) 
A. Prattiana, when at last it arrives, should prove perhaps the most 
beautiful of all species in the group of sarmentosa and Chamaejasme. 
It throws no stolons, and has rosettes of pointed hairy foliage, bristly 
and narrow, 3 to 43 inches in length. The stiff and equally bristly 
hairy stem is about twice or three times as high as the leaves are long, 
and the flowers are of intense purple-rose, notably handsome, and 
carried in a loose head. (Szechuan.) 
A. primuloeides—Round this name clings much obscurity ; cata- 
logues announce it freely, but the result is always either A. sarmentosa 
or A. sempervivoeides. Perhaps this may be due in part to the fact 
that Hooker’s names, of grandifolia, foliosa, and primuloeides, are all 
of obscure application, with no reference to the species that now 
rightly bear them. The true A. primuloeides, which may most likely 
not be in cultivation, is a lax stoloniferous plant closely akin to 
A. sarmentosa, with the same bald runners from 2 to 4 inches long, hairy 
at first and then smooth. The leaves of the rosettes are all clothed in 
very long white fluff, the lower ones lying pressed to the ground, being 
half an inch long, the rest, standing up in the usual way, much longer, 
sometimes 6 inches, often with short stalks, and always blunt. The 
erect hairy 4-inch scapes come up at the sides in the axils of the shoots, 
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