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short-lived perennials, but they retain in the latter case a characteristic slender- 
ness of the persistent part of the stem. Such specimens seldom occur in the Rocky 
Mountains and Sierra Nevada, but, according to Ledebour, a subperennial habit is 
characteristic of the species. 
VIOLACES. 
Viola glabella Nutt.; Torr. & Gr. Fl. i, 142 (1838). Type locality, ‘‘shady woods 
of the Oregon,” i. e., the Columbia River, 
Near the entrance of Disenchantment Bay, July 24 (No. 74), on a mountain slope 
at the altitude of 125 meters. 
Viola langsdorfii Fisch.; DC. Prodr. i, 296 (1824). Type locality, the island of 
Unalaska. 
Khantaak Island, June 3 (No. 12) and June 27 (No, 48). No. 48 is arobust caulescent 
plant with flowers, when not shrunken, 18 to 25 mm. long. No. 12 has no well- 
developed aérial stems, and is a smaller plant than the other, with smaller flowers 
and more nearly glabrous petals. It blooms, Mr. Funston states, a month earlier 
than No. 48 and has flowers of a lighter blue. It will be seen that its characters 
incline toward those of V’, palustris. No. 12 is abundant throughout the forest 
region, while No. 48 is said to occur less frequently. 
CARYOPHYLLACEA. 
Cerastium alpinum L. Sp. Pl. i, 438 (1753). Type specimens from Europe. 
Disenchantment Bay, August 3 (No. 85) occurring but scantily. 
Arenaria lateriflora L. Sp. Pl. i, 423 (1753). Type specimens from Siberia. 
Khantaak Island, June 12 (Nos, 18 and 19), These specimens, like others from 
the northern portions of the range of the species, are of low stature, seldom exceed- 
ing 10 em. in height, and have leaves about lem. in length. In No, 19 the anthers 
are nearly black and contain a mass of bodies many times smaller than pollen grains, 
undoubtedly their atrophied and functionless representatives. The same tendency 
toward the suppression of the stamens is manifested in other herbarium specimens. 
The plant grew on a sand spit and along a sandy bluff. 
Arenaria peploides L. Sp. Pl. i, 423 (1753). The Linnean plants came from the 
seashores of northern Europe. 
Khantaak Island, June 20 (No. 37). All the Alaskan specimens in the National 
Herbarium belong to the form described by Torrey and Gray as Honekenya oblongi- 
folia. The plant is strictly a littoral species, growing in profusion along gravelly 
beaches between the line of high tide and the forest. It is very commonly used to 
produce a smudge to drive away insects, 
PORTULACACE. 
Claytonia sibirica L. Sp. Pl.i, 204 (1753). Type locality, Siberia. 
At the base of Mount Tebenkof, Yakutat Bay, June 22, (No. 42). The plant is 
abundant along the banks of streams flowing into Disenchantment Bay. For use 
sce page 330. 
GERANIACEZ. 
Geranium erianthum DC. Prodr. i, 641 (1824). The species was decribed from 
specimens collected by David Nelson in Kamchatka and northwestern North 
America, 
Disenchantment Bay, August 10 (No, 100); common on the slopes of the moun- 
tains from 550 to 900 meters. 
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