Douglasiane. N. O. Primulacez. 
FAB CEAAR, 
Doveuasia NIVALIS. 
Gen. Cuar. Cal. obconicus, angulatus, 5-dentatus. Cor. infun- 
dibuliformis, tubo ventricoso, limbo plano 5-partito, fauce callo 
lineari sub utroque sinu. Ovarium uniloculare; placenta 
centrali libera pedicellata fungilliformi, margine 5-dentata ; 
ovula 5, dentibus placente opposita. Capsula vestita, unilo- 
cularis, 5-valvis. Semina 2, concava, scrobiculata.—-Ceespites 
suffruticulosi (Americe borealis), foliis indivisis, floribus sub- 
umbellatis, solitariisque. Lindl. 
Douglasia nivalis ; foliis linearibus pube rigida ramosa incanis 
subverticillatis, floribus longe peduneulatis subumbellatis. 
Lindl. in Brande’s Journ. 1828. p. 383. Bot. Reg. t. 1886. 
Has. On the Rocky mountains of N. America, in lat. 52° N., 
long. 118° W., at an estimated elevation of 12,000 feet above 
the level of the sea: flowering in April, while surrounded by 
snow. D. Douglas. 
I was favoured with this drawing from the able pencil of Miss 
Drake by Dr. Lindley, and the present engraving was made 
from it at the time when the only account of the plant that 
had appeared was in Brande’s Journal above quoted. Since 
that period a figure has appeared in the Botanical Register : 
but Iam yet unwilling to withhold the present plate from the - 
public, especially as it contains an analysis of the fructification. 
— A second species of the Genus (D. arctica) is in my possession, 
gathered by Dr. Richardson on the arctic shores of N. America. 
Fig. 1. Flower. f. 2. Part of the corolla with the stamens 
and glands laid open. f. 3. Portion of the corolla, with a single 
_ stamen. /f. 4. Pistil. jf 5. Placenta, with ovules. f- 6. Seed : 
| magnified. 
