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Douglasia (Named in honour of D Douglas)

(named in honour of D. Douglas, a very zealous botanist and collector in North-west America; he came to an untimely end in the Sandwich Islands). ORD. Primulaceoe. A genus of four species of little hardy evergreen plants, allied to Androsace. They form admirable subjects for alpine situations. A compost of peat and loam is the best soil for them. Propagated by seeds. In Europe, the genus is represented by D. Vitaliana, already mentioned in this work under its more generally accepted name, Androsace Vitaliana. The other three species belong to Arctic North America. D. nivalis (snowy).* fl. pink, sub-umbellate, on long peduncles. April. l. linear, obtuse, sub-amplexicaul, closely hairy. Branches rigid, hoary, sub-verticillate. h. 3in. Rocky Mountains, 1827 (B. R. 1886.)