Tab. 5871. 

 DODECATHEON Meadia, var. frigidum. 



American Cowslip, or Shooting Star ; Arctic variety. 



Nat. Ord. Primulace^e. — Pf.ntandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. — Calyx profunde 5-lobus, lobis lanceolatis reflexis. Corolla 

 5-partita, tubo brevissinio, fauce incrassato, segmentis reilexis Iineari-oblongis. 

 Stamina 5, corolla fauce inserta, filamentis brevibus crassiusculis _ mona 

 delphis; anthers elongate, in conum conniventes, basifixa?, lineari-subu- 

 late, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium subglobosum ; stylus strictus, 

 elongatus, filiformis, stigmate capitellato ; ovula plurima. Capsula subcy- 

 lindrica, apice valvis 5 brevibus dehiscens. Semina plurima, compresso- 

 lenticularia, umbilico ventrali, albumine carnoso ; embryo rectus, uinbilico 



parallelua. Herba valde variabilis boreali- Americana, acaulis, scapigera. 



Folia omnia radicalia, petiolata v. subsessilia, integerrima v. repando-den- 

 tata. Scapi solitarii. Flores umbellati, cernui. 



Dodecatheon Meadia. Linn. Sp. PL 207. Tab. nost. 12. 



Var. frigidum, foliis oblongo-ovatis petiolatis integernmxs, mvolucri folio la 



parvis angustis, corolla rubro-purpurea anthens atro-fuscis filamento 



multoties longioribua. 

 Dodecatheon frigidum; Cham, et Schlecht. in JAmaa, vol. i. p. 217. 



Seemann. Bot. Herald, Voy., t. 9 ; DC. Prodr., vol. x. p. 8. 

 Dodecatheon speciosum, Hort. 



A native of the Rocky Mountains and coast range* .of 

 Western N. America, from lat. 35° N. m California to t ho 

 Arctic seacoast, abounding in mountain slopes, mkjpto 

 and stony, often saline plains, ascending towven thousand 

 feet in the Cascade range, and replacing m *•*"£""£ 

 the usually large and paler-flowered typical D-M**" •*» 

 United States. Though differing from the Eastern ^ spec es 

 in the few points detailed *«"*■"#$ and = lly 

 in size, there is no question but tnat vr. urav 



NOVEMBER 1ST, 1870. 



