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Hab. Labrador and Newfoundland. {Herb. Banks, Pursh.) Between Lake St Clair and Lake Huron, 

 rare ; D. Dmtglas.—l have myself received nothing like this plant of Smith's from the above-named countries. 



5. A, stricta; erecta, glabra, multicaulis, foliis lineari-setaceis uninerviis rigidis paten- 

 tibus in axillis proliferis et quasi verticillatis, paiiicula dichotoma patente, petalis obovatis 

 sepala ovata acutissima 3-ncrvia superantibus. — ». foliis magis erectis, fasciculis axillari- 

 bus paucioribus, panicula erectiore, — A. stricta. MicL Am, v. 1. />. 274.? De Cand. Prodr. 

 V, 1, p, 403. Pursh, FL Am, v, 1. p, 319. Elliott^ Carol, v, 1. p, 521. — /3. foliis recurvis, 

 fasciculis axillaribus iiumerosis, panicula patentissima. (Tab. XXXIII.) — A. stricta. 

 BigeL FL BosL ed, 2, p. 180. Torrey, FL of Un. St v. I. p, 455. 



Hab. /3. From the United States to the shores of the Arctic Sea, north of the Rocky Mountains. On 

 the Columbia ? Dr. Scculer, — In characterizing many of the species of this division of Areruiriay we need the 

 indulgfence of those who study the same plants after us, for none are attended with more difficulty, even 

 when, as in our case, we have numerous specimens from various latitudes, soils, situations, and elevations 

 above the level of the sea : for it then becomes almost impossible to say what differences may be caused by local 

 circumstances, and what may be permanent characters. To the species before us, these remarks are peculiarly 

 applicable. What I have here called var. /3, is what most of the American Botanists take for the true atricta 

 of Michaux; and it is named as such in the Herbarium of Dr. Boott, which was compared with that of 

 Michaux; yet the very appellation of "stricta" and the words " foliis erectis" of its original describer, are 

 quite at variance with the plant. Mr. Drummond's, however, and Dr. Richardson's specimens tend to 

 prove that my ». and /3. may pass into each other. It is among: the tallest of this groupe, often nearly a 

 foot hig-h ; the capsules are rather longer than the calyx. Dr. ScouIer*s plant from the Columbia has the 

 peduncles and calyces glandular. The var. d. is what I have figured at 



Tab. XXXIIL Fig. 1, Flower; Jig. 2, Fruit; Jig. 3, Saeii i—magnijied. 



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6. A, verna; erecta, ca^spitosa, multicaulis, foliis lineari-subulatis nervosis erectis, 

 panicula erecta pauci-m ultlflor a, calycibus ovatis acutis trinerviis corolla plcruinque lon- 

 gioribus. — Linn. Mant p, 72. EngL Botp, 512. 



Hab. Between Norway House and Cumberland House, Dr, Bichardson. Drummond. Columbia. 

 Menzies. D. Douglas, — This quite agrees with our British specimens of A. verna; the petals are sometimes 

 longer and sometimes shorter than the calyx, and the latter and the pedicels are sometimes glabrous and 

 sometimes pubescent, and, as it were, glandular. 



7. A.propinqua; " ceespitosa, glanduloso-pilosa, foliis lineari-subulatis acutis trinerviis, 

 calyce acuto trinervi petalis vix longiori capsula breviori." — Rich, in Frankl, 1st Joum. 

 ed, 2, App. p, 17, 



Hab. Barren grounds, north of lat. 5^°, to the Arctic Sea. Dr. RlcJiardson, Summits of the Rocky 

 Mountains. Drum7nond.— Dr. Richardson has fully described this in the place above quoted, and has jusUy 

 remarked that it has the habit of A. verna, but that its flowers are much smaller. The whole plant is, indeed, 

 slenderer, and the hue more glaucous, or sometimes inclining to purple. In the last expedition, speci- 

 mens were found without the glands, which brings it nearer to some states of ^. verna, with which per- 

 haps it should be united. It seems again intermediate between it and the following. 



8. A, hirta; foliis lineari-subulatis obtusis bisulcis hirtis, caulibus hirtis 2-3-floris, 

 calycibus 3-nerviis acutis capsula breviorlbus, petalis oblongis capsxila subbrevioribns. 

 BC—Wormsk, in FL Dan. t, 1646. Be Cafid. Prodr. v. I, p. 405. (excl. syn. Ah, rvbellcBy 

 WahL) Cham, et Schlecht, in Linncea, v, \, p, 56. 



Hab. Kotzebue's Sound. Lay and CoUie in Capt. Beechey's Voyagc—i have specimens of this plant 



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