DOUGLASIA. 
is not the most attractive species, having narrow leaves irregularly 
toothed into a little trifurcation at the point, and gathered into lax 
clusters. From the rather loose mass, all dusty-ashen with stellar 
hairs, rise downy stems of some 3 inches or so, carrying a tight head 
of some half a dozen violet flowers rather shut up and pinched, instead 
of amply open like the Sarmentose Androsace that the tuft’s whole 
habit recalls. 
D. laevigata has come into cultivation, and is a beautiful species 
indeed, forming a wide tufty cushion of broad, pointed leaves, smooth 
and brilliantly glossy-green, above which abundantly rise stems of 
an inch more or less, clothed in close stellar hairs and carrying a neat 
head of some two or four charming wide-open flowers of rich rosy pink 
with a yellow eye, the whole mass faithfully recalling a clump of 
Androsace Charpentiert, but that, apart from other differences, the 
flowers here are gathered in a head, while the leaves have no hairs 
upon them anywhere. This comes from the Cascade Mountains, &c., 
and thrives best in the conditions indicated above. 
D. montana is a variable type, of which the best picture may be 
gained by saying that its one-flowered variety from Montana is almost 
mistakable for Androsace Wulfeniana, with rose-pink flowers sitting 
close and single to a tuft of shining rosettes. Usually, however, the 
stems rise higher above the cushion, and carry one, two, or even three 
blossoms. It is a specially neat lovely thing. 
D. nivalis, a softly downy plant, more or less closely ase with 
rosettes on almost woody bare little prostrate branches (as in 
Androsace villosa). The leaves are blunt, in lax clumps, and the stems 
are hardly as tall, each carrying some three to seven flesh-pink flowers 
with rounded lobes on unequal foot-stalks. From about 10,000 feet 
in the Cascade Mountains. 
The only other recognised species in the race is D. Vitaliana, so 
completely distinct alike in habit and in distribution as indeed to 
deserve the distinct name of Gregoria, by which it has sometimes 
been known (as well as standing immortal in the affections of most 
people as Androsace Vitaliana). It might just as well box the compass 
and be Dionysia too, for it has many more obvious resemblances to 
these than to either Douglasia or Androsace, though for its beauty’s 
sake alone it deserves admission into the august dominant race of the 
group, with which it has definitely cast in its lot, rather than with 
either Dionysia or Douglasia. For D. Vitaliana abhors America where 
all the remaining Douglasias live, and, like so many other Americans, 
leaves its relations behind and makes its home entirely in the Old 
World—a plant of alpine elevations, abundant in the Southern Alps, 
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