ANDROSACE LANUGINOSA. 
( Shaggy -leaved Androsace.) 
Class. 
PKNTANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
PRIMULACEiE. 
Generic Character — Calyx five-cleft, or five- 
toothed, inferior. Corolla monopetalous, hypogynous, 
funnel-shaped, or salver-shaped, five-cleft, contracted 
at the orifice. Stamens five, inserted in the tube of the 
corolla, and opposite the segments ; filaments short ; 
anthers ovate, two-celled, opening longitudinally. 
Ovarium one-celled ; ovules five or indefinite, peltate. 
Style filiform. Stigma ohtuse or rather globose. 
Capsule one-celled, opening with five longitudinal 
valves. Seeds five or indefinite, peltate ; placenta 
central ; embryo in a fleshy albumen, and lying across 
the hilum. 
Specific Character. — The whole plant covered with 
long wooly hairs. Flowers many, in a terminal umbel. 
Tube of calyx ventricose ; corolla rosy pink, with a 
yellow eye. 
Artificial rockeries, as they are too frequently met with, are very uninteresting 
objects in pleasure grounds, and, in many instances, would be well nigh insufferable, 
did they not furnish appropriate sites for a most interesting class of plants. Clothed 
with a race of Alpines, the deformities of almost any rockery are hidden by a truly 
delightful mantle. The plant here figured is one of this race. It is found plenti- 
fully on the Himalaya Mountains, and, we learn from the " Botanical Magazine," 
that seeds of it were introduced from that station a few years back; from which stock 
of plants, in all probability, those now in our collections have originated. The species 
is hardy, and propagates by cuttings or seeds. Autumn is its season of flowering ; 
it blossoms abundantly, and, with a little care, can be rendered more interesting 
than it is naturally. It should often be renewed from seeds, and repeatedly raised 
from cuttings ; young plants being far more vigorous than old ones. 
A plant flowering with Mr. Lowe, of Upper Clapton, in August, 1845, furnished 
the specimen represented in the accompanying plate. 
Androsace is derived from the Greek words, aner, man, and sakos, buckler ; 
the leaves of some of the species bearing some resemblance to an ancient buckler. 
