douglasca PRIM ULACE^E 435 



ANDROSACE 



3 DOUGLASIA Lindl. in Brande. Joum Sci. 1827. 



Depressed and tufted little herbs with suffr atescent or at least 

 persistent stems, imbricated or crowded leaves and solitary or 

 somewhat umbellate small flowers. Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed. 

 persistent. Corolla tube equalling or surpassing the calyx, some- 

 what inflated above ; the throat more or less contracted and 5- 

 fornicate beneath the sinuses. Stamens included, distinct, with 

 short filaments and blunt anthers. Ovary 5-ovuled: style filiform. 

 Capsule turbinate, 1 or 2-seeded. 



D. dentata Watson Proc. Am. Acad, xvii, 375. Canescent with a 

 firm mostly dense pubescence : rather stout, branching : leaves rosuiate at 

 the nodes, oblong,, obtusish, mostly with 1-3 blunt teeth on each side to- 

 ward the summit, 4-6 lines long: peduncle an inch long, bearing a simple, 

 few-flowered umbel; ped'cels very unequal : calyx narrowed at base, 3 lines 

 long in fruit : the acuminate lobes nearly as long as the tube: capsule 

 oblong, slightly stipitate, equalling the calyx-tube. On high ridges, Ya- 

 kima Co. Washington. 



D. laevigata Gray Proc. Am. Acad, xvi, 105. Depressed cespitose : 

 leaves glabrous or with a few minute and scurfy deciduous branched hairs, 

 not at all ciliate, entire, or with 1 or 2 teeth toward the summit, oblong- 

 lanceoiate, obtuse, mainly in rosuiate radical or simply proliferous clusters, 

 2-3 lines long: peduncles short, scurfy-pubescent, 1-5-flowered: bracts of 

 the involucre oval or ovate, short: corolla bright red, its tube almost twice 

 as long as the ovate acute lobes of the calyx. On bluffs along the Colum- 

 bia river from Bridal Veil to near Hood River : blooming in early spring. 



4 ANDROSACE Tourn. L. Gen. n. 196. 



Small annual or perennial herbs with tufted leaves and small 

 white or pink flowers. Calyx persistent, 5-lobed to 5-parted. 

 Corolla salverform or funnelform; the tube short, not longer than 

 the calyx ; the limb 5-lobed, imbricated in bud. Stamens 5, in- 

 cluded, distinct, with short filaments and short blunt anthers. 

 Style mostly short: stigma capitellate. Capsule short, 5-valved 

 from the apex, few to many-seeded. 



A. septentrionalis L. Sp. 203. Leaves all rosuiate at the summit o 

 the slender annual root, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, narrowed at base* 

 often into a winged petiole, from irregularly denticulate to laciniate- 

 toothed, 6-12 lines long : scapes usually numerous, 2-10 inches high, sev- 

 eral to many-flowered : bracts of the small involucre subulate : pedicels 

 filiform, 1-2 inches long: calyx-tube obpyrimidal, white or reddish, with 

 subulate acute green lobes mostly shorter than the tube and rather shorter 

 than the obovate lobes of the corolla : capsule ovoid, shorter than the calyx : 

 seeds ovate, flattish. In open places, Brit. Columbia to California and the 

 Rocky Mountains. Europe and the Arctic sea coast. 



A. filiformis Retz. Obs. ii, 10. ? Annual: leaves ovate, obtuse, nar 

 rowed at base to a winged petiole, entire, 2 lines long : scapes filiform, 1- 

 10 inches high: bracts of the involucre minute, subulate: pedicels fili- 

 form, an inch long or less: calyx-tube hemispherical, green, with short 

 triangular lobes: tube of the corolla at length much longer than the calyx, 

 the short ovate lobes closely reflexed: capsule ovoid, much longer than the 

 calyx : seeds globular, minutely tuberculate. Edge of water near Forest 

 Grove Oregon. 



