PLATE DCXLVIL 



ANDROSACE CORONOPIFOLIA. 



Buclcs-horn Plantain-leaved Androsace. 



CLASS V. ORDER L 

 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Five Stamens. One Style. 



Involucrum umbellatum. Corolla hypocrate- 

 riformis, S-loba^ ore glanduloso. Capsula 

 quinquevalvis. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Umbel with an involucre. Corolla salver- shaped, 

 five-lobed, with glands at the mouth. Cap- 

 sule with five valves. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Androsace foliis lineari-lanceolatis dentatis, 

 umbellae radiis laxissub-capillaribus nume- 

 rosis, corollis calyce duplo longioribus. 



Androsace with linear-lanced toothed leaves : 

 the rays of the umbel hair-like, loose, very 

 numerous, and the blosssoras double the 

 length of the calyx. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The empalement. 



2. A blossom spread open. 



3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 



4. A ripe seed-vessel. 



5. The same opened to expose the seeds. 



Our drawing of this elegant little plant was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Malcolm and Co., at Ken- 

 sington, July 1811. No figure or description of the species has before been published; but we have 

 seen wi'ld specimens of it in the herbarium of A. B. Lambert, esq., gathered by the Swedish naturalist 

 Laxman, near the Lake Baical in Siberia, and marked Androsace angusfifolla. 1 he height of the plants 

 in cultivation with us varies from three to ten inches, the number of rays in the central umbel are from 

 twelve to twenty, and in the lateral ones from six to fourteen ; the plant is annual, and generally 

 sows itself upon the borders where it grows. We are informed it was introduced about 1806, by Mr. 

 Bell, of Sion Gate near Brentford, who received seeds of it from Siberia, under the name of Androsace 

 luctea. 



