ANDROSACE. 
remains of many seasons’ dead foliage; various lax irregular untidy 
leafy rosettes are thrown up here and there, the whole clump being 
rough with coarse brief bristles. The leaves are oblong, more or less 
blunt, upstanding, and drawing gradually out below to a petiole or 
- leaf-stalk as long as themselves, the blade, instead of being smooth, 
set all over with short transparent bristles, and having a callous tip. 
The flowers are rather few to a head, widely bell-shaped, lilac-mauve, 
about a quarter of an inch across, carried loosely, each on a Jongish 
foot-stalk. The species is of stout habit and the easiest culture in any 
cool, rich soil, though it has not any brilliancy or charm. 
A. tibetica is yet another cousin of sarmentosa that has just lately 
come into cultivation and promises to stay. It can either throw out _ 
stolons or compile its new rosette-buds so as to form a tuffet. The 
foliage of the rosettes is lengthily spoon-shaped, almost an inch long 
or more, fleshy, pointed, perfectly smooth, with a fringe round the 
edge, which sometimes has a cartilaginous rim. Among the neat 
leaves the stems rise up or recline a little ; they are about 2 or 4 inches 
high ; then open the rather broad and conspicuous bracts that have 
shielded the blossom-head—a spraying umbel of delicate pink or rich 
pink flowers, faintly fragrant. The type varies greatly in dimension of 
bracts and other particulars ; named formsare A. t. himalaicaand A. t. 
Mariae, the first emitting runners, and the second forming a dense 
tuft. In the plant shown at the R.H.S. in 1913 the bracts were too 
broad and evident, the whole effect rather leafy. There should be no 
doubt that A. tibetica will answer to hotter treatment than A. 
spinulifera, and closely copies the charm of A. Chamaejasme. (See 
Appendix.) 
A. Vegae. See under A. caespitosa. 
A. villosa is a yet more important and beloved species than A. 
_ Chamaejasme, which it closely resembles in size and charm of pearly 
flower-heads; but the whole plant is smaller, and very neat rather 
than straggling, with compact masses of rosettes most glorious in a 
vesture of shimmering silver silk, and heads of blossom large and 
ample, on many little stems of 2 to 3 inches. A. penicillata, often 
offered by catalogues, is merely a synonym of A. villosa-type ; but in 
the course of its enormous distribution over the mountains of the 
world, throughout all the alpine chains of Europe, Asia, and Northern 
America, A. villosa falls into as many diversities of form as A. Chamae- 
jasme ; and, since many of these are now listed as separate species, 
it will be as well to make note here that they are mere varieties. First 
and foremost comes lovely little A. v. arachnoidea (A. arachnoidea of 
catalogues), which is a smaller, neater, compacter thing even than the 
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