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counivent, .'5-rLbbed, central rib undiviileu, those at the sides lainter, and 

 branched. Stamens 10, connivent ; filaments glandular, flat, slightly di- 

 lated below, yellowish above and below, colourless in the middle ; an- 

 thers orange-brown, bilobular, lobes blunt and rounded at the termina- 

 tions, pores rounded, each with two reflexed awns, much longer than 

 itself, and diverging a little. Fist'd rather longer than the stamens; ger- 

 men green, globose, scarcely lobed, wrinkled, surrounded by brownish 

 glands at its base ; style articulated on the top of the germen, suddenly 

 swollen above its base, and gradually tapering upwards ; stigma blunt. 



This extremely pretty little plant was introduced from Canada by Mr 

 Blair into the extensive and interesting collection- of Mr Cunningham 

 at Comely Bank, near Edinburgh, in 1826 ; and this enterprising culti- 

 vator had the satisfaction of seeing the plant come into flower in his 

 garden in May last ; the first time it had been seen in Scotland, and af- 

 ter it had been lost in England. 



Pursh and Nuttall confine the American station of this plant to the north- 

 west coast ; but this Mr Blair did not visit. It is therefore more dif- 

 fused in the northern parts of America, and as it is a most abundant 

 plant in the north of Europe and Asia, it is extremely probable that it 

 may one daj' in the north of Scotland reward the labour of some British 

 botanist, for, unless when it is in flower, it may be very easily, oiverlooked. 



Androsace carinata. , . 



A. carinata ; caule brevissimo, ramoso ; pedunculo terminali, umbellifero ; 

 foliis lanceolatis, acutis, subintegerrimis, subpubescentibus. ciliatis ; 

 involucris integerrimis ; umbella pauciflora, capitata, radiis cah'ce 

 brevioribus ; corolla calycem excedente, scapo hirsuto. 

 Androsace carinata, Torry, " Plants of the Rocky Mountains," in An- 

 nals of Lyceum of Nat. History of Neiv York, vol. 1. p. 33. t. 3. f. 1. 

 Description — Stem short, red, branched, somewhat hairy, hairs spread- 

 ing. Leaves lanceolate, acute, somewhat succulent, without veins, 

 shining and roughish, towai-ds the apex often pubescent on both 

 sides, spreading, star-like. Peduncle (fths of an inch long) terminal, 

 grooved, red, especially towards the base, hairy, hairs numerous, spread- 

 ing. Umbel about 5-tlowered. Involucrum of 5 or 6 imbricated entire 

 segments, one to each flower, resembling the leaves, but smaller and pu- 

 bescent on the outside. Calyx o-cleft, tumid, hairy without, smooth 

 within, segments connivent at the apices, subacute. Corolla yellowish, 

 the colour deepening towards the faux and in the tube : tube inflated, 

 as long as the calyx in which it is inclosed ; limb 5-parted, segments ob- 

 ovato-ellipticaL, as long as the tube ; faux somewhat prominent, 5-gonous. 

 Stamens included ; filaments arising from the base of the corolla, and ad- 

 hering to it for more than half their length, connivent above ; anthers 

 large, yellow, cordate, bursting along their sides ; pollen yellow. Pistil 

 about as long as the stamens, green : stigma capitate, flattened above, 

 and perforated in the centre ; style filifomi ; germen top.shaped, equal 

 in length to the style ; ovules about 12. 

 We raised this species at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, from seeds col- 

 lected by Mr Drummond on the Rocky Mountains, and presented by 

 him in 1828 under the name of Androsace cliamcEJasme. It certainly 

 very much resembles that European species and A. villosa, but may he 

 distinguished from these, especially by the flowers being almost sessile 

 upon the top of the peduncle, while in them the pedicels are longer than 

 the involucrum. The leaves, too, seem longer in the present plant, 

 and lanceolate rather than ovate. Its identity with Torry's plant is 

 proved by an original specimen of this in Dr Hooker's herbarium. It 

 flowered in a cold frame in April, and is of course perfectly hardy. 



Androsace linearis. 



\. linearis; cjespitosa, scapo umbellato, umbella sub-sexflora, radiis elon- 



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