174 Rhodora [NOVEMBER 
The sheet of no. 64,720 in the Herbarium of the Geological Survey 
of Canada contains also typical C. Beeringianum. 
3. C. FiscrERIANUM Seringe. Loosely matted, with spreading or 
ascending glandular-hispid flowering stems 0.7-4 dm. long; upper 
internodes (except in dwarfed arctic specimens) becoming 0.4-1.2 
dm. long: leaves of the season 3-7 pairs, broadest near the base, 
lanceolate to lance-oblong or lance-linear, rarely ovate, mostly acu- 
tish, pilose on both faces; the median 1—4.2 cm. long, 0.3-1.6 em. 
broad: bracts lanceolate to ovate, acutish, herbaceous: inflorescence 
dichotomous, (1—)3-27-flowered: pedicels at first ascending, after 
anthesis nodding at tip or strongly divergent, in maturity 1.5-4 em. 
long: sepals in anthesis 4.5-7.5, in fruit 5.5-9 mm. long, lanceolate 
to oblong, acute or acuminate: petals bluntly 2-lobed, 0.9-1.2 cm. 
long, ascending: capsule 0.9-1.2 cm. long: seeds 0.7-1 mm. in diam- 
eter, bluntly papillose.—Seringe in DC. Prodr. i. 419 (1824). C. 
alpinum, y. Fischerianum (Seringe) Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 188 (1838). 
C. vulgatum, 8. grandiflorum, lusus 1, Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. 
411 (1841).—Siberia to Japan and Alaska; southern Labrador to 
the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec. The eastern specimens examined are 
as follows. LABRADOR: waste places near dwelling, Battle Harbor, 
August 16-18, 1911, C. S. Williamson, no. 695; springy banks and 
damp hillsides, Forteau, July 30, 1910, Fernald & Wiegand, no. 
3388; abundant in damp runs and on mossy banks, limestone and 
calcareous sandstone terraces, Blanc Sablon, August 1, 1910, Fernald 
& Wiegand, no. 3389 (also noted on the Quebec side of Blane Sablon 
River). QuEBEc: Blane Sablon (see preceding note); Bonaventure 
conglomerate (calcareous) sea-cliffs, Bonaventure Island, Gaspé Co., 
August 7 & S, 1907, Fernald & Collins, no. 1034; limestone detritus 
along outer bases of Les Murailles, Percé, Gaspé Co., August 10, 
1907, Fernald & Collins, no. 1035. 
4. C. arcticum Lange. Plant very low and densely tufted; the 
stems 0.3-1 (rarely -2) dm. long, viscid and pilose; internodes short, 
the median 0.3-2 em. long: leaves of the season 3-5 pairs, 0.5-1 cm. 
long, oval or elliptical, rarely oblong, obtuse or acutish, pilose, those 
of the sterile shoots sometimes villous: bracts broadly ovate, scarcely 
scarious: inflorescences  1—3-flowered: pedicels erect or spreading, 
slender, sometimes nodding at tip: sepals in anthesis 4-7 mm. long, 
ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acutish, scarious-margined: 
petals broad, 0.9-1.3 em. long: capsule once and a half to twice as 
long as the sepals: seeds 1.5-3 mm. in diameter, papillose.—Fl. Dan. 
Fase. 50, p. 7, t. 2963 (1880), in part. C. latifolium, B. Edmond- 
stonit H. C. Watson in Edmonst. Fl. Shetl. 29 (1845). C. Edmond- 
stonit (H. C. Watson) Murbeck & Ostenf. Bot. Notiser (1898) 246. 
C. nigrescens Edmondston ex Ostenfeld, Med. om Grónl. xxxvii. 
224 (1920).—Northern Europe and perhaps arctic America. Here 
are doubtfully referred two immature collections as follows. MEL- 
