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Androsace (This genus embraces about)

This genus embraces about forty species, confined to the Northern hemisphere. To those described on pp. 72-3, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

A. foliosa (leafy). fl. many in an umbel; corolla pale flesh-coloured, 1/3in. to 1/2in. in diameter; scape solitary, erect, 3in. to 5in. high. May to September. l. 2in. to 3in. long, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or acute, hairy. Rootstock woody, without stolons, sending up one or more very short stems. Western Himalaya, 1882. (B.M.6661.) A. rotundifolia macrocalyx (round-leaved, large-calyxed). fl. numerous; calyx 1/2in. to 2/3in. in diameter; corolla pale rose-coloured, much shorter than the calyx; scapes slender, longer than the leaves. June. l. radical, 1in. to 2in. in diameter, orbicular-cordate, lobulate; petioles equalling the blades. Himalaya, 1882. A softly hairy perennial, without stolons. (B.M. 6617.)