Douglasia.'] ' PRIMULACE^. 119 



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petiolnm sensim attenuatis, tubo stamineo flavo. Hook. Bot Mag. L 3622. Ph, Am. 1. 

 p. 136. Rich. App. p, 6.-/3. minus; foliis ovato-spathulatis petiolatis, tubo stamineo flavo. 

 -7. latifolhm; foliis latissiine ovatis petiolatis, tubo stamineo purpureo-nigro. 



Hab. ^. Woody country of the Hudson's Bay territories to Carlton House Fort, and in Prairies of the 

 Rocky Mountains. Dr Richardson. Drummond. Common along the beach at Stikine Sound and Clarence's 

 Straits, N. W. America. Tolmie.—^. and J. Dry banks about Fort Vancouver on the Columbia/ 7)?- Scouler, 

 Dr Gairdner, Tolmie. Sitcha (Bongard) and N. W. American Islands. Pallas. 



2. Z>./n>z^2/m(Cham.etSchlecht.); foliis oblongo-ovatis integerrimis subrepandis, 

 umbellis paucifloris, pedunculis umbellatis divaricatis, bracteis lanceolatis, filamentis in 

 tubo brevissimo connatis. Limicea, \.p. 217. Hook, et Arn. in Bot. of Beech. Voy.p. 129. 



Hab. Kotzebue's Sound. Beechcy. Arctic sea-shore. Sir John Franklin and Captain Bach West 

 side of the Rocky Mountains. Douglas, 



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3. D. dentatum; foliis lato-ovatis grosse dentatis longissime petiolatis, umbellis pauci- 



floris, pedunculis umbellatis suberectis, antheris sessilibus vel annulo brevissimo solum- 

 modo unitis, 



fa 



Hab. N. W. interior (last journey). Douglas. ^TKi^ appears a very distinct species, and to have white 

 flowers. 



2. ANDROSACE. L. 



1. A. septentrionalis. L.—BoL Mag. t. 2021. Cham, et Schlecht in Linn^a, I./?. 217, 

 Hook, et Arn. Bot. of Beech. Voy.p. 129.— A. occidentalis? Nutt. Gen. Am. \, p. 118. 

 A. elongata. Eich. App, p, 5, {non L. and Jacq.) 



Hab. From Fort William on the Saskatchawan to the heights of the Rocky Mountains, and to lat. 6S° on 



the Mackenzie River. Br Richardson. Drummond. Bay of Escholtz in Behring's Straits. Chamisso. 



Beechey.— An exceedingly variable plant, from 1 to 9 inches high. Leaves toothed, pinnatifid or entire. 



Peduncles with a single flower, or an umbel either few- or many-flowered ; the pedicels short or elongated. In 



Dr Richardson's A. elongata, the calycine teeth are much smaller than in the Linnaan elongata (though 



certainly a little larger than is usual in septentrionalis)-, the involucre is much smaller and the peduncles 

 more upright. 



2. A. Chamccjasme. Wulff.— Cham, et Schlecht. in Linn^a, 1.;>.318. Hook et Arn. Bot. 

 of Beech. Voy.p. 129. Rich. App, p. 5. 



Hab. Islands of Behring's Straits. Menzies. Chamisso. Cape Newenhara [Nelson in Herb, nostr.) Siud 

 Kotzebue's Sound. Beechey. Heights of the Rocky Mountains. Drummond; and from Fort Norman to 

 the Arctic coast. Dr Richardson, 



3. DOUGLASIA. Lindl. 



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CaL obconicus, angulatus, 5-dentatus. Cor. infundibularis, tubo ventricoso, limbo 

 piano 5-partito, fauce callo lineari sub utroque sinu. Ovarium uniloculare, placenta cen- 

 tral! libera pedicellata fungilliformi, margine 5-dentato; ovtda 5, dentibus placenta; oppo- 

 sita. Capsula vestita, unilocularis, 5-vaIvis. Semina 2, concava, scrobiculata. — Ca^spites 

 suffniticulosl {Americce borealis), foliis linearihus indivisis, floribns umbellatis solitariisque . 

 Lindl. 



