8 ; Rhodora [JANUARY 
Wallroth’s clearly applicable name until the whole group can be sub- 
jected to the thorough investigation it so urgently requires, material 
for which can be found only in European herbaria. From the char- 
acters given by Wallroth (“ Frucht. ...sowohl an den hervorstehenden 
Rippen als an den Zwichenfeldern fein beharrt. Die Fruchtkrone 
fast von der Länge der Frucht, rundlich and kurz gelappt und mit 
eben so kurzen Grannen versehen,” or as given in the Latin diagnosis, 
“fructibus obovatis breviter pedicellatis mastrucatis, pappi lobis 
ovatis subaristatis”) it seems highly probable that the specimens 
collected by Sommer are referable to my first variety, which is ac- 
cordingly designated var. genuina. 
Fic. 1.— Statice labradorica (Wallr.) Hubbard & Blake var. submutica Blake forma 
glabriscapa Blake (Fernald & Collins 710). 
Fie. 2.— S. labradorica var. genuina Blake (Sornborger 112). 
Fic. 3.— S. arctica (Cham.) Blake var. californica (Boiss.) Blake (Baker 2851). All X 7. 
2. Sraticr arctica (Cham.) Blake, comb. nov. Root as in the 
last or thicker, pinkish in section. Scapes 1-6, erect, slender or stout- 
ish, always glabrous, more or less glandular-punctate, 12-52 cm. high. 
Leaves in a dense basal tuft, linear, rounded or blunt at apex, or subu- 
lately acutish, enlarged below into the scarious-margined base, glab- 
rous or ciliate, 1-3(-sub-5)-nerved, (3-)5-20 cm. long, 0.8.-3(-4.5) 
mm. wide. Heads hemispheric, 1.6-2.5 cm. thick. Outer bracts three, 
ovate to oblong-ovate, oblong-lanceolate, or rarely lanceolate, acute, 
scarcely mucronate, scarious-margined, 6-13 mm. long, 3.5-5 mm. 
wide, glabrous. Sterile bracts about seven, rotund-elliptic, rounded 
at apex, not mucronate, broadly scarious-margined, 9-12 mm. long, 
4.5-5.5 mm. wide. Spikelets 3-flowered. Fruiting bract elliptic- 
cuneate, broadly rounded at apex, not mucronate, scarious, nerved 
in middle below, ca. 11 mm. long, 6.5 mm. wide. Bractlets (each 
subtending a flower) broadly oval, rounded at apex, scarious, 6 mm. 
