PRIMULACEyE 203 



Alpine pastures and stony places on calcareous and schistose 

 Alps ; 5000-9000 feet. June to August. 



Distribution. — Carpathians, Erzgebirge, Eastern and Central 

 Alps. Not in the Western Alps except very rarely in Savoy. 

 Arctic Russia, Asia, and North America. 



Androsace ladea L. 



Scape glabrous, 2-4 inches high, springing from a large rosette 

 of green linear or linear-lanceolate, acute leaves, which are glabrous 

 and only ciliated towards the apex. Involucral bracts very small, 

 Unear-lanceolate, much shorter than the flower-stalks. Flowers 

 sometimes solitary, and then without an involucre, white, with a 

 golden-yellow disc at the throat ; lobes cordate. Flowers usually 

 3-5 in a loose umbel. 



Alpine pastures and stony places on limestone ; 4800-8000 feet. 

 June, July. 



Distribution. — Carpathians, Eastern, Central, and Western Alps, 

 Haut-Jura ; rare in Switzerland, except in the Stockhorn Range 

 and Alps of Fribourg. 



Androsace septentrionalis L. 



An annual species resembling the last, but taller and with smaller 

 flowers in a more numerous-flowered umbel, and oblong-lanceolate, 

 toothed leaves. 



Grassy places and fields in the mountains up to 6500 feet ; local. 

 June, July. 



Distribution. — Eastern, Central, and Western Alps, Northern 

 Europe, Caucasus, Siberia, North America ; rare in Switzerland, 

 and only in Grisons and Valais (Saas Thai, etc.). 



Androsace lactiflora Pall. 



An annual species not found in Switzerland, but in some of the 

 French Alps in the south. Plant 4-8 inches high, glabrescent. 

 Leaves in a radical rosette, oblong-lanceolate, slightly toothed. 

 Central flower-stem erect, the side one spreading, almost glabrous. 

 Flowers on long, slender pedicles, forming a loose, spreading cluster 

 or umbel. Corolla white or pink, small, 4-10. Involucral bracts 

 small, lanceolate-acute. Lobes of calyx triangular, shorter than the 

 tube. 



Woods and pastures in the mountains. April to July. 



Distribution. — Departments of Isere, Hautes-Alpes, Basses-Alpes, 

 Alpes-Maritimes, Var, Vaucluse ; Northern Asia. 



Androsace maxima L. 



Annual or biennial, 2-4 inches high. Leaves large, in a radical 

 rosette, obovate-wedge-shaped, toothed at the top. Scape low, 

 rather thick, the central erect, the others spreading. Pedicels 



