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WHITE TO GREEN 



SWEET ANDROSACE 



Androsace Cha/ncpjas/nc. Primrose Family 



Stems : slender. Leaves : in more or less open rosulate tufts, one-nerved, 

 ovate. Flowers: in capitate umbels. 



The sweet smell of these delicate Uttle clustered blossoms, 

 that crrow from one to three inches above the soil and fill the 



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air with fragrance, is most attractive. Their primrose-like petals, 

 of creamy or pinkish hue, look up with yellow eyes to greet 

 each passer-by, while rosulate tufts of tiny narrow leaves are 

 set about the slender stems. 



ALPINE ANDROSACE 



Androsace septoitrionalis. Primrose Family 



Stems: slender, many-flowered. Leaves: rosulate, lanceolate. Flowers: 

 calyx-tube obpyramidal, with subulate, acute, green lobes; corolla-lobe 

 obovate, longer than the calyx. 



A very different species from the foregoing one, having 

 much branched, thread-like stems, bearing numerous tiny 

 white flowers. 



STAR-FLOWER 



Trie II talis Americana. Primrose Family 



Rootstock creeping, sending up many stem-like branches, which are 

 naked below, the leaves all in a verticil of five to ten at the summit. 

 Leaves : membranous, lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, sessile. Flowers : 

 solitary or few: calyx usually of seven sepals: corolla wheel-shaped, of 

 seven petal-like segments. 



The pretty blossoms of this Star-flower are generally white, 

 though sometimes tinged with mauvish-pink, and so grace- 

 fully are they poised on slender stalks above a whorl of 

 pointed leaves that every puff of wind blows them gently to 

 and fro. The number seven recurs with marked frequency in 

 this particular plant, — the calyx is seven-parted, the corolla 



