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Douglasia (One species of this genus)

One species of this genus is a native of Central Europe; the rest are North American. Flowers axillary or terminating the branchlets, solitary and sessile or pedicellate, sometimes fascicled or umbellate; calyx fivecleft to the middle; corolla salver-shaped, the limb of five imbricated lobes. Leaves imbricated or clustered and spreading, entire. To the species described on p. 488, Vol. I., the following should now be added: D. laevigata (smooth).* fl. rose-pink, pedicellate, 1/3in. in diameter; corolla tube twice as long as the calyx, the lobes very broadly obovate; involucral bracts four to six, 1/4in. long; peduncle about 1in. long, erect, two to five-flowered. Spring and autumn. l. rosulate, 1/2in. to 3/4in. long, linear or oblong-lanceolate, acute or sub-acute. Alps of Oregon, 1886. Plant tufted. (B. M. 6996.)