ANDROSA'CE LANUGINO'SA. 
WOOLLY-LEAVED ANDROSACE. 
Class. 
pentandrta. 
Natural Order. 
PRIMULACEAi. 
Order. 
monogynia. 
Native of 
Himalaya* 
Height. 
6 feet. 
Flowers in 
June, July. 
Duration. 
Perennial. 
Introduced 
in 1840.? 
No. 1174. 
The word Androsace is compounded from the two 
Greek words aner and sarkos, a man, and buckler; 
from the fancied resemblance of the leaf of the com- 
mon species to an ancient buckler. 
The specimen of this plant from which our draw- 
ing was made, was sent us by the late Mr. Cameron, 
who, we believe, received it from his friend Mackay 
of the Dublin Botanic Garden. In this garden it 
was raised from seeds transmitted by Dr. Royle from 
the Himalayan Mountains, — mountains exceeding 
in vastness— in immensity of height, all others on 
the face of the earth, beautifully alluded to by Bishop 
Heber as “the steps to God’s eternal temple.” On 
the sides of this mountain belt of Hindoostan, may 
be cultivated in succession all the vegetable produc- 
tions of the world, from the riches of the tropics, to 
t e stunted Productions of the polar regions; around 
t em, too, may Queen Victoria count a hundred 
millions of her subjects. 
Androsace lanuginosa flowers admirably in the 
borders, in summer; but, notwithstanding it will 
bear severe frosts in its native countiy, it requires 
with us a little winter protection. 
