False babystars, Leptosiphon androsaceus, and giant woollystar, Eriastrum densifolium (Linanthus densiflorus). Androsace-like leptosiphon, Leptosiphon androsaceus, and thick-flowered leptosiphon, Leptosiphon densiflorus. Handcoloured engraving by Frederick William Smith after a botanical illustration by Samuel Holden from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 3, Orr, London, 1837.

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