Stem shrubby, procumbent, branching in all direc- 

 tions : branches thickly clothed with white spreading 

 unequal hairs. Leaves green on both sides, oblong- 

 elliptic, with a strong nerve underneath, and furrowed 

 above, more or less hairy on both sides : lower ones 

 petiolate ; upper ones sessile, or nearly so, shorter and 

 rounder. Petioles flat, fringed. Stipules none. Flowers 

 terminal, in short secund racemes, of a bright yellow. 

 jBractes at the base of the pedicles, oblong, or lanceo- 

 late, bluntish, densely hairy. Pedicles slender, thickly 

 clothed with white unequal hairs ; before flowering, re- 

 curved, when in flower, erect, after flowering, reflexed. 

 Calyx of 5 unequal sepals, very hairy : 2 outer ones 

 very small, lanceolate, scarcely more than half the 

 length of the others ; inner ones oblongly lanceolate, 

 concave, bluntish. Petals 5, about double the length 

 of the calyx ; flat, imbricate nearly all their length, 

 round or slightly emarginate, scarcely crenulate. 

 Stamens 30 to 40, unequal in length, spreading. 

 Germen hairy. Style short, twisted at the base. 

 Stigma capitate, 3-lobed, bristly. 



An elegant little species, well adapted for the orna- 

 menting of rock-work, or for growing at the front of 

 flower borders, where its lively blossoms, which con- 

 tinue in succession for a considerable time, make a 

 handsome appearance. It is a native of various parts 

 of Europe, growing in rocky mountainous situations ; 

 we have compared our plant with a fine specimen in 

 Mr. Lambert's Herbarium, with which it agrees so 

 exact, that the drawing might be supposed to have 

 been made from the very specimen. It succeeds well 

 in small pots, planted in a mixture of light sandy loam 

 and peat; and cuttings strike root readily, taken off in 

 the young wood as soon as ripened, and planted 

 under hand-glasses, where they will soon strike root; 

 it may also be raised from seeds, which sometimes 

 ripen. 



Our drawing was taken from a plant at the Nursery 

 of Mr. Colvill, last summer. 



