1917] Blake,— Statice in North America 9 
long or less. Pedicels glabrous, 3.5 mm. long or less; scar of attach- 
ment oblique, obovate-fusiform. Calyx 6.5-7 mm. long; proper 
tube obconic, 10-ribbed, the ribs pilose with spreading-ascending 
hairs, the interspaces and cross-ribs entirely glabrous; limb funnel- 
form, 5-nerved, the nerves shortly pilose; lobes about 1 mm. long, 
depressed-deltoid, abruptly apiculate or mucronulate, rarely retuse, 
the nerve evanescent near middle or continuing to apex, the tooth or 
mucro 0.2-0.4 mm. long; intermediate teeth obsolescent or absent. 
Petals lilac.— Armeria vulgaris Willd. forma arctica Cham. Linn. vi. 
566 (1831). “A. vulgaris E. humilis forma arctica Ebel, De Armer. 
Diss. 31 (1840),”’ fide Wallr.1. c. A. arctica Wallr. Beitr. i. 193 (1844); 
Boiss. in DC. Prod. xii. 679 (1848). A. sanguinolenta Wallr. l. c. 
207 (1844); Boiss. l. c. 682 (1848). A. vulgaris and Statice Armeria 
Am. auth., in part.— Two varieties may be recognized. 
Var. genuina Blake, var. nov. Folia ciliata apice subulato-acutius- 
cula.— Alaska to British Columbia and Washington.— ALASKA: 
Kotzebue Sound, Bongard, Arnott (Beechey’s Voyage), 1881, Muir 58; 
Cape Nome, 1900, Blaisdell; Unga ï., 2 July 1872, Harrington; 
Igognak I., Unalaska, 12 Sept. 1873, U. S. Coast Survey; Arakamtchet- 
chene I., Bering Sts., 1853-56, C. Wright; St. Paul I., Elliott, 28 July 
1891, J. Macoun. British Cotumpia: Vancouver I., 1858, Lyall. 
WASHINGTON: prairie, Roy, 13 May 1899, O. D. Allen 96. Lyall’s 
and Allen’s plants show some approach in leaf-tip to the next variety. 
Rosendahl & Brand 19, from crevices of slate rock, District of Renfrew, 
Vancouver Island, is intermediate in leaf-tip but has the glabrous 
leaves of var. californica. 
Var. californica (Boiss.) Blake, comb. nov. Folia glabra apice 
late rotundata vel subtruncata, quam in var. genuina saepe latiora et 
longiora.— Armeria andina Poepp. £. californica Boiss. l. c. 678 (1848). 
— Fig. 3.— CALIFORNIA: hills near San Francisco, 8 April-1 May, 
Bigelow; common on ridges, sandhills near San Francisco, 3 May 
1903, C. F. Baker 2851; Oakland, H. Mann 21; near Monterey, 
Hartweg 1927; Monterey, 1-15 June 1903, G. Newell; Pacific Grove, 
July 1891, Michener & Bioletti 194; along beach, Pacific Grove, 
30 April 1903, Heller 6641; without locality, Bridges 320, Brewer 650, 
Bolander, Coulter, 577. 
In this species as in S. labradorica hexamerous calyces occasionally 
occur. The Unga Island specimen collected by Harrington is de- 
cidedly aberrant, having a 6-lobed calyx with merely blunt or even 
` emarginate lobes, but is connected by Muir’s Kotzebue plant with 
the normal form. 
It may be well to call attention to the fact that the differences 
shown in the figures are, with the exception of those mentioned in the 
text, entirely individual and in no way diagnostic of the forms repre- 
sented. 
STOUGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 
