38 Rhodora [FEBRUARY 
the Shickshock Mountains of Quebec and apparently to Mt. Katahdin, 
Maine (specimens young), E. Hornemanni and E. lactiflorum, there is 
in eastern America one other clearly marked species which seems not 
to have been described. This is a plant occurring in the Torngat 
Mountain region of northeastern Labrador and represented in the 
Gray Herbarium by two collections made by the Rev. Adolph Stecker 
of the Unitas Fratrum. This plant of the Torngat Mountain area has 
the cespitose habit of the other species, but is more stiffly erect and 
with sub-coriaceous or almost rigid, crowded sessile leaves, these 
occurring as 9-12 pairs below the lowest flower; the other species of 
eastern America having the 3-7 pairs of thin foliage leaves distinctly 
petioled. The flowers are small, with whitish petals, as in Æ. lactiflorum, 
but the young buds and young capsules are strictly erect instead of 
nodding, as in that and in the other related species; while the capsule 
is very short-pedicelled, the pedicel only 2-4 mm. tong, E. lactiflorum, 
having the pedicels well developed, often 2 or 3 cm. long, as do both 
E. Hornemanni and E. alpinum. The mature capsules of the new 
plant are 3.5—4 cm. long, those of E. lactiflorum and of E. Hornemanni 
being usually longer (8-6 cm.). The seed is essentially that of E. 
Hornemanni, being fusiform and with a pebbled surface. In its stiff 
habit and crowded leaves the new plant resembles Æ. Bongardi 
Haussk. of the Bering Sea region, but the latter species has more oval 
leaves, much larger flowers (6-10 mm. long) with conspicuous crimson 
petals, the capsules are long-pedicelled (often 2 cm. long), and the 
seed is quite smooth, as in E. lactiflorum. 
The Labrador plant, differing in its essential characters from all the 
described northern species, may appropriately bear the name of the 
assiduous collector, Rev. Adolph Stecker, who has supplied us with 
material of so many interesting and often novel plants from north- 
eastern Labrador. The species is therefore described as 
Epritosium Steckerianum, n. sp., E. lactifloro habitu floreque 
simile; caulibus stricte erectis; foliis subcoriaceis confertis 9-12 jugis 
infra inflorescentiam oblongo-lanceolatis 1.5-3.5 em. longis 0.5-1 em. 
latis obtusis repando-denticulatis sessilibus vel subsessilibus; flori- 
bus 4-6, virgineis erectis 4.5-5.5 mm. longis; calycibus 3.5-5 mm. 
longis glabratis; petalis lacteis; capsulis breviter pedicellatis, juniori- 
bus erectis glanduloso-hirtellis, adultis glabratis 3.5-4 cm. longis, 
pedicellis 2-4 mm. longis; seminibus fusiformibus, apice in appendi- 
culum pellucidum productis 1.3 mm. longis 0.4 mm. latis, testa papil- 
loso-rugulosis. : 
Similar to E. lactiflorum in habit and flowers, but stiffly erect: the 
