1920] Fernald & Wiegand,—Cerastiums of Section Orthodon 177 
Forma Waghornei, n. f., caulibus et foliis et sepalis villoso-hir- 
sutis nec glandulosis. ; 
Stems, leaves and sepals villous-hirsute, not glandular.—NEw- 
FOUNDLAND: sandy plains, Coal (or Serpentine) River, June 26 and 
28, 1898, A. C. Waghorne, nos. 10 (TYPE in Gray Herb.) and 27. 
7. C. UNALASCHKENSE Takeda. Flowering stems stout, 2-4 dm. 
high, rather densely sordid-hirsute throughout, except rarely at the 
extreme base; internodes long (median 2.5-10 cm.): leaves of the 
season 4-6 pairs, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, rarely lance-oblong, 
acute or acutish, hirsute on both surfaces; the median 1.5-4 em. 
- long, 0.8-2.5 em. broad: bracts broadly ovate; the upper with very 
narrow scarious margins: inflorescence (3—-)4-13-flowered, forming 
a terminal rather small dichotomous cyme, at first congested, in 
fruit with divaricate or reflexed stout scarcely arching pedicels: 
sepals in anthesis 7-10 mm. long, in fruit scarcely longer, lanceolate 
to lance-ovate, acute; the margins narrowly scarious: petals broad, 
about 1 cm. long, a third longer than the sepals: capsule very large 
(1.7-2.3 em. long), twice to thrice the length of the calyx: seeds 
large, 1.3-1.8 mm. in diameter with long marginal papillae pass- 
ing on the sides to oblong ridges.—Kew Bull. 1910, 381 (1910). C. 
vulgatum, y. macrocarpum Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. 409 (1841). 
C. alpinum B. Fischerianum, lusus C. macrocarpum (Fenzl) Regel, 
Pl. Radd. i. 439 (1862).— Coast of British Columbia to Kamtchatka 
and eastern Siberia. The following American specimens have been 
examined. British CoLUMBIA: thicket, Long Arm, Skiddegate, 
Queen Charlotte Isl., July 16, 1897, C. F. Newcombe, no. 18,252 (in 
part), Geol. Surv. Can. ALASKA: Shumagin Islands, 1871-72, M. 
W. Harrington; banks, Unalaska, September 25, 1871, June 13, 
1872, M. W. Harrington; among grasses, etc., on the flats at sea- 
level, Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, June 29, 1907, E. C. Van Dyke, no. 
71; Nazan Bay, Atka Island, July 28, 1907, E. C. Van Dyke, no. 284; 
Amchitka Island, July 25, 1873, W. H. Dall; Kyska Island, June 30, 
1873, W. H. Dall. 
8. C. vuncATUM L. Flowering stems rather slender, 1-6.5 dm. 
high, simple or slightly branching, hirsute or rarely glandular; inter- 
nodes elongate, the median becoming 2-12 cm. long: leaves of the 
season 3-7 pairs, oblong to narrowly oval, hirsute on both surfaces; 
the median 0.5-4 cm. long, 1.5-15 mm. broad: bracts similar but 
smaller, broadly scarious at margin and summit: inflorescence 3- 
about 60-flowered, forming a terminal finally very dichotomous 
cyme, at first rather congested, in fruit with the lower pedicels div- 
ergent or reflexed and 2-4 times as long as the calyx: sepals 4-7 mm. 
long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, hirsute, the margin scarious: petals 4-8 
mm. long, about equaling or very slightly exceeding the sepals, cleft 
to the middle, with ciliate claw: capsule 7-11 mm. long: seed 0.5-0.7 
mm. in diameter, reddish, tubereulate.—Fl. Suec. ed. 2, 158 (1755), 
