Volume 10 — PLATE DCXLVII. ANDROSACE CORONOPIFOLIA. Buck’s-horn Plantain-leaved Androsace.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Stamens. One Style.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Involucrum umbellatum. Corolla hypocrateriformis, 5-loba, ore glanduloso. Capsula quinquevalvis.

Umbel with an involucre. Corolla salver-shaped, five-lobed, with glands at the mouth. Capsule with five valves.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Androsace foliis lineari-lanceolatis dentatis, umbellæ radiis laxis sub-capillaribus numerosis, corollis calyce duplo longioribus.

Androsace with linear-lanced toothed leaves: the rays of the umbel hair-like, loose, very numerous, and the blossoms double the length of the calyx.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

Our drawing of this elegant little plant was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Malcolm and Co., at Kensington, July 1811. No figure or description of the species has before been published; but we have seen wild specimens of it in the herbarium of A. B. Lambert, esq., gathered by the Swedish naturalist Laxman, near the Lake Baical in Siberia, and marked Androsace angustifolia. The height of the plants in cultivation with us varies from three to ten inches, the number of rays in the central umbel are from twelve to twenty, and in the lateral ones from six to fourteen; the plant is annual, and generally sows itself upon the borders where it grows. We are informed it was introduced about 1806, by Mr. Bell, of Sion Gate near Brentford, who received seeds of it from Siberia, under the name of Androsace lactea.