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leaves of grey-green almost like a twig of Juni- 

 per, and heads of rosy or pink flowers with a 

 yellow eye. Water freely in dry weather, and 

 shelter from thefiercestglareinsummer. Alps, 

 mountains of Auvergne, and Pyrenees, from 

 6,000 to 8,000 feet. Syns. A. Lachenalii, and 

 puberula. Seeds, sown as soon as ripe. 



A. carnea var. eximia. — A form of the last, 

 hardier, more robust, and with larger flowers. 

 It grows quickly into tutts 3 inches high and 

 6 or more across, if encouraged by dressings of 

 light and gritty soil into which the prostrate 

 shoots send roots from the under side. 



A. caucasica. — A pretty little plant, new as 

 yet, and hardly known. Narrow leaves in dense 

 rosettes, with heads ofbright pink flowers upon 

 very short stalks, during summer. Caucasus. 



A. Charpentieri. — A distinct kind and one 

 of the neatest of alpine plants, free in flower, 

 and of strong growth in sandy soils. Rosettes 



rounded cone-like columns less than an inch 

 high, covered thickly with hairs, with white 

 flowers nestling in the centre duringApril and 

 May. Summits of Oule de Marbore', Upper 

 Pyrenees. Syn. A. frutescens. 



A.foliosa.- — One of the Himalayan kinds, 

 beautiful in flower, and of free growth when 

 well established, making tufts a foot across in 

 one season. The leaves are not crowded into 

 rosettesbutare largeanddistributedupon erect 

 or trailing stems, green rendered grey with pale 

 hairs, and turning reddish-purple in the au- 

 tumn. The rosy-red flowers come upon long 

 stems from June to September, and are large 

 and carried in big clusters sometimes of fifty 

 flowers, lasting for a long time in beauty. They 

 often change prettily in colour with age, and, 

 as in certain Primulas, other small heads are 

 sometimes thrown up from the centre of the 

 first cluster. In good years seed ripens, and the 



ANDROSACE 

 (Engraved on wood for "Flora" from 



SARMENTOSA, 



a group on rock-garden at Friar Park.) 



of tiny, downy leaves in crowded masses, and 

 rich rosy flowers hardly rising above the leaves 

 in June and July, after other kinds have done 

 flowering. Thrives best in crevices of sandstone 

 or granite rock, facing south-west or sheltered 

 from fierce sun. Seed. Alps above Lake Como. 

 Syn. Aretia brevis. 



A. ciliata. — A scarce plant from the Py- 

 renees, growing in small, dense columns of deep 

 green leaves fringed along the edges, and 

 crowned in April and May by large stemless 

 flowers ofbright rose. Granite soils. 



A.cylindrica. — Though classed as a species 

 this little plant is very like the last and comes 

 from the same region. It forms mossy tufts of 



plant is easily grown from cuttings taken in 

 autumn and rooted in a cold frame during win- 

 ter, or from offsets struck singly in small pots. 

 The plant grows in deep limestone soil, made 

 light with leaf mould and grit, and mixed with 

 plenty of broken fragments ; it does best in full 

 sun, with abundant water to the root in sum- 

 mer. Western Himalayas. 



A. glacialis. — In its wild state one of the 

 most beautiful, growing in loose flat tufts of 

 branching stems clothed in downy leaves, and 

 covered during early spring with flowers of 

 vivid pink paling to white. Does best in clefts 

 of sandstone rock, in full sun. Alpine summits 

 (always granite) at 6,000 to 9,000 feet. Seeds. 



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