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Knight Island, June 18 (No. 29), on a treeless, sandy bluff. It was common on 
Khantaak Island, and a few specimens were found on Mount Tebenkof at an altitude 
of 180 meters. 
Caltha palustris L. Sp. Pl. i, 558 (1753). Type specimens from Europe. 
On the east side of Yakutat Bay, near Ocean Cape, May 28 (No. 4); in the mar- 
gins of fresh-water lagoons, but uot abundant, 
Coptis trifolia (L.) Salish. Trans. Linn. Soc, viii, 305 (1807); Helleborus trifolia 
L. Sp. Pl. i, 558 (1753). Type localities, Canada and Siberia. 
Khantaak Island, June 3 (No. 11); found sparingly among mosses and ferns in the 
lowlands, 
Aquilegia formosa Fisch.; DC. Prodr. i, 50 (1753). Type locality, Kamchatka. 
Disenchantment Bay, August 14 (No. 121); abundant up to an altitude of 200 
meters, 
Aconitum delphinifolium DC. Syst. i, 380 (1818). The type specimen was col- 
lected ‘(in Hedge Island ad oras occidentales Americ borealis” by David Nelson. 
Disenchantment Bay, August 13 (No. 116); abundant on the grassy slopes of the 
mountains from 275 to 750 meters altitude. 
Actza spicata arguta (Nutt.) Torr. Pac. R. Rep. iv, 63 (1857); A. arguta Nutt. ; 
Torr. & Gr. FI. i, 35 (1838). The type locality is “woods of the Oregon [i. e., the 
Columbia] and its tributary streams.” : 
Near the Mission, June 6 (No. 14); growing in treeless, sandy soil covered with 
grass. 
NYMPHAACEA. 
Nymphea polysepala (Engelm.) Greene, Bull. Torr. Club, xv, 84 (1888); Nuphar 
polysepalum Engelm, Trans. St. Louis Acad. ii, 282 (1865). Type locality, the 
higher Rocky Mountains, from the sources of the Platte to those of the Columbia. 
The various stations known at that time were also given. 
Khantaak Island, June 26 (No. 43), in a fresh-water pond about 1 meter deep. 
BRASSICACH#. 
Barbarea barbarea (L.) MacMillan Met. Minn. Val. 259 (1892); Erysimum barbarea 
L. Sp. Pl. ii, 660 (1753); Barbarea vulgaris R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv, 109 
(1812). Type specimens from Europe. 
Disenchantment Bay, August 8 (No. 95); growing in damp, shady spots from sea 
level to an altitude of 125 meters. 
Arabis hirsuta (L.) Scop. Fl. Carn. ed. 2, ii, 30 (1772); Turritis hirsuta L. Sp. Pl. 
ii, 666 (1753). Original specimens, from Sweden, Germany, and England, 
Khantaak Island, June 7 (No. 15); found abundantly abont an old Indian camp. 
For use, see page 332. 
Arabis lyrata L. Sp. Pl. ii, 665 (1753). Type specimen collected in Canada by 
Kalm. 
Disenchantment Bay, August 3 (No. 84); common on rock slides and all places 
where other vegetation is scarce, at an altitude of 150 meters or less. 
Cardamine oligosperma Nutt.; Torr. & Gr. Fl. i, 85 (1838). Type locality, 
“shady woods of the Oregon.” 
Khantaak Island, May 30 (No. 7); growing along the beach above tide water. 
Dr. N. L. Britton, to whom specimens have been submitted, refers them to C. 
oligosperma, yet doubtfully, for they have no mature fruit. He says that they are 
certainly not C. hirsuta. 
Draba stenoloba Ledeb. FI. Ross. i, 154 (1842). The type specimens were col- 
lected on the island of Unalaska by Chamisso and Eschscholtz. 
Disenchantment Bay, August 9 (No. 96); on the sides of a rocky cliff, 90 meters 
above the sea. These specimens are in some cases annuals, in others biennials or 
