The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Andryala

(the meaning of this is unknown). ORD. Compositae. These are pretty hardy evergreen herbaceous perennials, easily grown in ordinary well-drained garden soil. Increased by seeds and divisions in spring. Two species only are in cultivation.

A. lanata (woolly).* fl.-heads yellow, Hieracium-like. May. l. white, woolly, thick, oblong-ovate; radical ones stalked; upper ones sessile. Stems with a leaf at each joint. h. about 1ft. South Europe, 1732. A. mogadorensis (Mogador). fl.-heads bright yellow, as large as a half-crown; disk bright orange. April. Morocco, 1871. This species is rare in cultivation.

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