228 Primulaceae 



corolla tube yellow, slightly longer than the 

 calyx. 



The commonest primrose of the region 

 on wet banks and moist, sandy or gravelly 

 places at the lower altitudes throughout the 

 Rockies; flowering in June, also occurs 

 sparingly in the Selkirks. 



Proliferously branched at the 

 Androsace 



carinata ^ ase an ^ casspitose. Leaves 



Torr. Sweet folded over each other, forming 

 Flowered rosettes at the bases of the many 

 flowered scapes; from lanceolate 

 to oblong-spatulate or ovate, keeled, i- 

 nerved, J J an inch long, acute, fringed with 

 hairs on the margins. Flowers \ of an inch or 

 more broad, cream coloured with a brilliant 

 yellow eye; 4-10 in a close umbel, on slender 

 hairy scapes 1-3 inches high; flowers deli- 

 cately fragrant. 



Throughout the Rockies in open situa- 

 tions either dry or moist, and at low or high 

 altitudes; flowering from early June to mid- 

 summer according to the altitude. 



