114 Rhodora [JUNE 
ceolate, 5-7 mm. long: capsule 7-9 mm. in diameter, thin-walled 
(translucent in dried specimens): seeds smooth and lustrous, light 
reddish-brown.— ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, tide-margin at Nazan Bay, 
Atka, July 26, 1907 (E. C. Van Dyke, no. 237); Behring Island, 
July 15, 1891 (№. Grebnitsky, Herb. Geol. Surv. Can.): KAMTCHATKA, 
Ochotsk Sea, 1853-56 (J. Small, Herb. U. S. N. Pacific Exped.): 
Japan, near Hokodate, Hokkaido (Albrecht, 1861); Zenibako, June, 
1883, Oshamambo, July, 1883 (S. Takenobu): NEWFOUNDLAND 
seashore, Wild Cove, July 10, 1896 (A. C. Waghorne). 
* * Flowers few, terminal or axillary but not in distinct cymes. 
Var. pirrusA Hornem. Dwarf, matted: the flaccid depressed 
branches scarcely fleshy, 3-20 cm. long, 1-2 mm. thick, often purple- 
tinged: leaves ovate to elliptie, narrowed at base, slightly fleshy, 
0.5-1.5 em. long: flowers 1—3, on short slender pedicels: sepals 
lance-ovate, acute, 5-7 mm. long: capsules as in the typical form.— 
Oec. Pl. ed. 3, 501 (1821). Halianthus peploides, var. diffusa Lange, 
Conspect. Fl. Groenl. pt. 1, 26 (1880). Arenaria diffusa Wormskj. 
ex Lange, Consp. Fl. Groenl. pt. 2, 243 (1887). Honckenya pep- 
loides, a diffusa Kruuse, Med. om Grónl. xxx. 229 (1906).— Green- 
land and arctic America, south to the Straits of Belle Isle, Labrador. 
Var. major Hook. Branches fleshy, subsimple to freely forked, 
1-4 dm. long, 2-4 mm. thick: leaves elliptic or oblong, somewhat 
fleshy, narrowed at base, the middle ones 2-3.5 cm. long: flowers 
few, axillary, on slender often elongate (6-25 mm. long) pedicels: 
sepals lanceolate or lance-ovate, acute, 6-8 mm. long: capsule 9-12 
mm. in diameter: seeds lustrous.— Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 102 (1830). 
Honckenya oblongifolia Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 176 (1838). Arenaria 
sitchensis Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 1565 (1840).  Honkeneja peploides, p. 
oblongifolia Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. 358 (1842). Halianthus 
peploides, var. oblongifolia Hartm. Skand. Fl. ed. 11, 244 (1879). 
Ammodenia major Heller, Cat. N. Am. Pl. 4 (1898). Alsine pep- 
loides, subsp. oblongifolia Gürke in Richter, Pl. Eu. ii. 265 (1899). 
Ammodenia peploides major Piper, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. xi. 260 
(1906).— Pacific coast, from the Aleutian Islands апа Kamtchatka 
. south to Washington and Japan; said by Hartman to occur in Scan- 
dinavia. 
Var. robusta, n. nom. Branches erect or ascending, very fleshy, 
simple or sparingly forked, 1.5-5 dm. high, 2.5-6 mm. thick: leaves 
oblong or oblong-ovate, scarcely narrowed at base, very thick and 
coriaceous, the middle ones 1-3 сш. long: flowers few, axillary or 
from the upper forks, on short (3-7 mm. long) thick pedicels: sepals 
ovate, obtuse or subacute: capsule thick-walled, 8-12 mm. in diam- 
eter: seeds dark brown, distinctly papillose, only slightly lustrous.— 
А. peploides Nutt. Gen. i. 290 (1818); Bigel. Fl. Bost. ed. 2, 181 
(1824); Torr. Fl. N. and Mid. U. S. 453 (1824); and most subse- 
quent Am. auth. Holosteum succulentum Nutt. Gen. i. 89 (1818) 
