Douglasia. PRIMULACEiE. 59 



hardly exceeding the narrow teeth of the oblong calyx. — Ann. Lye. N. Y. i. 34, t. 3, & ii. 

 235. — Alpine region of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and New Mexico, James, &c. 



P. Parryi, Gray. Large, sometimes obscurely puberulent: leaves rather succulent, 

 spatulate-oblong or oblanceolate, 4 to 12 inches long, often denticulate : scape a span to a 

 foot high, 5-12-flowered ; bracts of the involucre subulate, much shorter than most of the 

 pedicels: calyx ovoid-campanulate, glandular, commonly reddish; the lanceolate-subulate 

 lobes as long as the tube, rather longer than the ovoid capsule : corolla crimson-purple 

 with yellow eye ; the round-obovate lobes (about 5 lines long) emarginate or obcordate ; 

 the tube not exceeding the calyx. — Amer. Jour. Sci. scr. 2, xxxiv. 257 ; Watson, Bot. King, 

 213; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6185. — Margins of alpine brooks, through the higher Rocky 

 Mountains of Colorado {Parry, &c.), to those of Nevada and Arizona. The most showy 

 species. 



P nivalis, Pall. Resembles the preceding, but funs into much smaller forms : leaves 

 from one to 6 inches long, thickish, either entire or closely denticulate : umbel 2-10- 

 flowered : bracts of the involucre ovate-subulate : pedicels usually short : calyx-lobes 

 oblong or broadly lanceolate, shorter than the oblong capsule : corolla lilac-purple ; the 

 lobes oblong or oval, entire (3 or 4 lines long) ; the tube fuunelforra and surpassing the 

 calyx. — " It. appx. t. G, f . 2," ex Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. 10 ; Cham. & Schlecht. in Linn, 

 i. 215; Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. 129. — Unalaschka to Behriiig Straits and St. Paul's 

 Island ; chiefly the small form, var. pumila, Ledeb. 1. c. (N. Asia.) 



•1— -f— Leaves more or less cuneate. coarsely toothed around the apex or sometimes laciniate, of firm 

 and thickish texture: bracts of the involucre subulate: pedicels and deeply cleft calyx obscurely 

 glandular. 



P. CUneifolia, Ledeb. Leaves all rosulate-clustered on the thick short crown, obovatc- 

 cuneate, coarsely laciniate-toothed (3 to 12 lines long), mostly narrowed at base into a long 

 and slender petiole : scape 2 to 4 inches high, 1-several-flowered : corolla purple ; the lobes 

 deeply 2-cleft (3 to 5 or even 6 lines long), as long as the funnelform tube. -^ Mem. Acad. 

 Petersb. (1814) v. 522, & Fl. Ross. I.e. P. saxlfragoefoUa, Lehm. Prim. 89, t. 9; Cham. & 

 Schlecht. I.e. — Aleutian Islands to Behring Straits. (N. E. Asia.) 



P. sufirutescens, Gray. Leaves thickly crowded on ligneous-fleshy and tufted creep- 

 ing stems or rootstocks (of a span or so in length), thick, cuneate-spatulate, 5-7-toothed at 

 summit, long-attenuate below into a margined petiole : scape 2 to 4 inches long, several- 

 flowered : corolla red-purple ; the lobes (three lines long) obovate and emarginate or slightly 

 obcordate, about equalling the tube. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 370^ & Bot. Calif, i. 468. — 

 Crevices of rocks, alpine region of the Sierra Nevada, California. 



4. DOUGL Asia, Llndl. (Named for David Douglas, of Scotland, an inde- 

 fatigable explorer of N. W. Amer. Botany.) — Depressed and tufted little herbs; 

 the stems branching or proliferous, suffrutescent, or at least persistent ; the leaves 

 small, linear, imbricated or rosulate on the branches, or some of them scattered 

 and alternate. Flowers solitary or somewhat umbellate, small. — Lindl. in 

 Brande Jour. Sci. 1827 (not 1828 as generally cited), 383, & Bot. Reg. t. 1886; 

 Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 371; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 632. Aretia, Gaud., 

 Koch, &c., not L. Gregoria, Duby, Bot. Gall. 1828, 583, & DC. Prodr. viii. 45, 

 as to No. 1, namely the D. Vitaliana, of Europe, which has yellow flowers: iu 

 ours they are rose-purple. 



* Flowers umbellate-clustered from the uppermost ro.sulate tuft of leaves: tube of the corolla 

 longer than the calyx. 



D. nivalis, Lindl. Canescent with fine close pubescence, 3 or 4 inches high, repeatedly 

 3-4-chotomous : leaves nearly all in proliferous rosulate tufts, not ciliate, ratlier obtuse, 

 3 to 6 lines long: lobes of the corolla oval, shorter than the tube, 2 lines long. — Bot. Reg. 

 t. 1886. Androsace linearis, Graham in Edinb. Phil. Jour. July, 1829. — Rocky Mountains, 

 in lat. 52°, &c., at 12,000 feet, Douglas. 



D. drctica, Hook. Glabrous : leaves ciliate with short and simple hairs. — Fl. ii. 120. D. 

 nivalis, var. glabra, Duby, in DC. 1. c. 47. — Arctic seashore between the Mackenzie and the 

 Coppermine, Richardson. 



