1924] Fernald,—Dwarf Antennarias 101 
4.5-6 mm. high, 4.5-6 mm. wide (in dried specimens): bracts in 2-3 
series, subequal, thin; the outer 3-4 mm. long, oblong or lanceolate, 
obtuse or subacute, straw-color or brown, green and a little lanate at 
base; inner oblong, obtuse, lacerate-erose, milk-white: corollas 3-3.3 
mm. long: achenes glabrous, 0.8-1 mm. long: longer pappus-bristles 
4-4.3 mm. long: staminate plant unknown.—RuHopora, xvi. 197 
(1914).—Dry limestone shingle, northern domes of Table Mt., Port 
à Port Bay, NEWFOUNDLAND. FI. July. 
8. A. NITIDA Greene. Fic. 9. Resembling A. albicans. PisTIL- 
LATE PLANT with the stiffish stolons up to 6 dm. long: basal leaves 
0.5-1.5 em. long: flowering stems 0.5-2 dm. high: cauline leaves 9-18; 
the middle and upper merely short-mucronate: heads 5-9 in a glomerule: 
involucre 6-7 mm. high, viscid-hirsute: bracts about 4-seriate, very 
unequal; the outer 34.5 mm. long, oblong, obtuse, whitish, green and 
densely lanate at base; the inner white, gradually narrower, obtuse, 
entire or barely erose: corollas 3-3.5 mm. long: achenes 0.8-1.2 mm. 
long: longest pappus-bristles 5 mm. ong. STAMINATE PLANT with 
glomerules 1-2 cm. in diameter: involucre with firm creamy or 
yellowish oblong to obovate entire to merely crenulate bracts: corollas 
3.5 mm. long: pappus 44.5 mm. long, upwardly barbellate; the 
slightly dilated (rarely broad) tips crenate.—Pittonia, iii. 283 (1898). 
A. arida viscidula E. Nelson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xxiii. 710 (1901). 
A. viscidula Rydberg, Fl. Colo. 369 (1906).—Dry limestone soil, 
Charlton Isl., James Bay, QUEBEC to ATHABASCA and Uran. FI. 
late June, July. 
9. A. Peasei, spec. nov. (Fic. 11), humifusa, stolonibus foliosis con- 
fertis perbrevibus (ad 2 cm. longis); foliis basilaribus late oblanceolatis 
vel anguste cuneato-obovatis 7-12 mm. longis 2-4.5 mm. latis mucro- 
natis supra albidis, tomento denso minuto; caule florifero 3-7 cm. 
alto gracili; foliis caulinis 5-7 lineari-lanceolatis 0.8-1.5 cm. longis, 
imis mediisque subulato-mucronatis, superioribus 2 vel 3 apice 
scarioso oblongo-lanceolato 2-3 mm. longo munitis capitulis femineis 
2-5 dense corymbosis hemisphaerico-campanulatis basi rotundatis; 
invo ucro 6-7 mm. alto basi lanato; bracteis 2-3-seriatis subaequalibus 
chartaceo-petaloideis, exterioribus oblongis subacutis pallide brunneis 
basi subeastaneis, interioribus similibus acuminatis lacteis; corollis 
3.8-5 mm. longis; stylo purpurascenti; achaenis glabris; planta 
mascula ignota.—Matane County, QUEBEC: talus of mica-schist, 
chimney east of Razorback Ridge (altitude 850-1000 m.), Mt. Logan, 
July 13, 1923, A. S. Pease & L. B. Smith, no. 26057 (TYPE in Gray 
Herb.). 
Related to A. albicans of western Newfoundland and A. subviscosa 
of Rimouski County, Quebec. From the former distinguished by the 
distinctly mucronate and loosely tomentose basal leaves, the few 
cauline leaves, the larger heads, the acuminate inner involucral bracts 
and the longer corolla; A. subviscosa is a coarser plant with trailing 
