Tab. 6996. 



DOUGLASIA LAEVIGATA. 



Native of the Alps of Oregon. 



Nat. Ord. Pbimulacej:. — Tribe PsiMULEiE. 

 Genus Douglasia, Lindl. ; (Benth. et Haok. f. Gen. PI. vol. ii. p. 632.) 



Dotjglasia Icevigata ; caespitosa, glaberrima, foliis rosulatis oblongo- v. lineari- 

 lanceolatis crassiusculis acutis obtusisve integerrimis, floribus umbellatis, 

 umbellis 2-5-floris, involucri bracteis brevibus ellipticis ovatisve obtusis, pedi- 

 cellis calyce duplo longioribus, calycis subcampanulati 5-fidi lobis ovatis 

 ciliolatis, corollae tubo calyce subduplo longiore, lobis obovato-rotundatis 

 integerrimis, ovario globoso stylo gracili. 



D. Ia3vigata, A. Gray in JProc. Amer. Acad. vol. xvi. p. 105, and Synopt. Fl. 

 N. Amer. Ed. 2, vol. ii. part. ii. p. 400. 



Avery interesting plant, from bearing the name of one who 

 has introduced into Europe more beautiful and interesting 

 hardy Western American plants than any previous or 

 subsequent collector, and whose protracted and perilous 

 solitary journey across the continent of JSTorth America, 

 when as yet travelling amongst the native tribes was 

 dangerous in the extreme, was a memorable feat in the 

 annals of Geography. One species of the genus alone had 

 been previously figured, the D. nivalis, Lindl. (Bot. Beg. 

 t. 1886, and Hook. Ic. PI. t, 180), upon which Lindley 

 established the genus. This is also a native of the Rocky 

 Mountains, where, on the Athabasca Pass, near Mounts 

 Brown and Hooker in British Columbia, at an elevation of 

 about 12,000 feet, it attracted the attention of Douglas by 

 the patches of brilliant purple which it formed amidst 

 surrounding snows. D. Icevigata differs remarkably in 

 habit from D. nivalis in the umbellate flowers, which are 

 also considerably larger, have broader corolla-lobes, and 

 are also more pink than purple. The genus of which four 

 species are described in Gray's Synoptical Flora of North 

 America, is too nearly allied to the well-known EuropeaD, 

 American and Himalayan genus Androsacey of which it has, 

 as the above notice of B. nivalis shows, precisely the habit. 



may 1st, 1888. 



