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PRIMULACES), 
Trientalis europzea arctica (Iisch.) Ledeb. Fl. Ross, iii, 25 (1847); T. aretica 
Fisch. ; Hook, Fl. Bor. Amer. i, 121 (1830); The range given with the original deserip- 
tion is from Sandy Bay, in Clarence Straits, to Unalaska, and in Kamchatka. 
Between the Mission and Cape Phipps, June 1 (No, 10); of frequent occurrence in 
the spruce forest. 
Glaux maritima L. Sp. PI. i, 207 (1753). Type locality Europe. 
On the mainland near the Mission, June 19 (No. 32); growing in patches on the 
beach just above the line of high tide. It occurred also on Khantaak Island at the 
head of Port Mulgrave. 
GENTIANACES. 
Gentiana amarella L. Sp. Pl. i, 230 (1753). Type specimens from Europe. 
Cape Phipps, July 23 (No. 72), and Disenchantment Bay, August 11 (No. 104); at 
both points growing on the beach. Two forms are represented in these two num- 
bers, the best disposal of which, in the present state of our knowledge concerning 
the varieties of G. anarella, is to refer them to that species without a varietal desig- 
nation. No, 72 has purplish foliage and stem, blue flowers, and a deeply cleft calyx, 
the narrow lobes of which are not more than one-half as long as the corolla. No. 104, 
while very similar in form and size, has green herbage, yellow flowers, and a calyx 
with more foliaceous divisions, the larger commonly two-thirds to three-fourths as 
long as the corolla. 
Gentiana platypetala Griseb. Gent. 191 (1839). The type specimens were col- 
lected on the island of Sitka during the second expedition of Kotzebue in the early 
part of the present century, and none have been reported since. 
Disenchantment Bay, August 12 (No. 108). It has been impossible to compare ours 
with the original specimens, yet from Grisebach’s description we appear to have 
the same plant. It closely resembles small specimens of G. calycosa, the stems 
being 15 to 22 cm. high and bearing 6 to 10 pairs of ovate-oblong, obtuse or bluntly 
acute leaves. Each stem is terminated by a single sessile flower involucrately sur- 
rounded by 2 or 3 pairs of leaves, the inner reduced, The calyx, which is about 
one-half as long as the tube of the campanulate blue corolla, has a spathaceous 
membranaceous tube 10 to 14 mm. long, which usually spreads open along two oppo- 
site lines nearly to the base, the free margins being thin, scarious, and apparently 
not torn, The calyx lobes proper are minute, lanceolate, acute, herbaceous organs 
about 3mm. long. The corolla lobes are conspicuously narrower at their insertion, 
broader than long, and abruptly acuminate, while the plaits in the sinuses are tri- 
angular, broader than high, and acute or emarginate, 
Menyanthes trifoliata L. Sp. Pl. i, 145 (1753). Type locality European. 
Khantaak Island, June 20 (No. 39); common in fresh-water ponds, growing both 
in the water and on the adjacent wet soil. 
HYDROPHYLLACES,. 
Romanzoffia sitchensis Bong. Veg. Sitch. 158 (1831). Type locality, Sitka. 
Near Dalton Landing, August 15 (No. 123), growing among shaded rocks in a 
canyon leading from the St. Elias range. This plant so closely resembles a small 
saxifrage, Saxifraga nudicaulis for example, that a critical look at the corolla is 
necessary to distinguish it. Even the thickened bases of the petioles and the two 
divergent carpels of the mature fruit precisely simulate those of certain saxifrages, 
yet they have the most widely different genetic relation. 
