REVISION OF EPILOBIUM. 81 
uriant specimens collected in Alaska by Harrington, in 
1872, have leaves 40 mm. wide, bracts leafy, and the style 
storter than the stamens but hairy at base. 
Though Professor Haussknecht adopts the Linnean name 
for this species, it appears wiser to use that proposed by 
Lamarck, the typical angustifolium of Linneus being ac- 
cording to him what is commonly known as #. Dodonei, 
Vill. 
2. E. tatiroiium, L.— A span to usually a foot or more 
high, frequently branched, mostly glabrate below; leaves 
rarely 50 mm. long, usually opposite and connected below 
on the branches and rarely on the main stem, lanceolate to 
ovate, acute at both ends, entire or sparingly and minutely 
denticulate, scarcely petioled, pale, rather coriaceous, the 
mostly free lateral veins inconspicuous; inflorescence usually 
short and few flowered, leafy throughout, the buds not re- 
flexed; petals 15 to 30 mm. long, rather narrow; style 
shorter than the stamens, glabrous; capsules sometimes short 
and stout; seeds .5 x 2to 2.5mm.; otherwise like the last. — 
Sp. i. (1753), 347; Watson, Index, 365; Haussknecht, 
Monogr. 190. — Damp places, Arctic America from Labra- 
dor to Alaska, extending southward to Canada (Allen), the 
mountains of Colorado, and N. E. Oregon. Also in the 
arctic regions of the Old World, extending in Asia to the 
Himalayas. — Specimens examined from Labrador, Canada, 
Repulse Bay (Hail), Grinnell Land (Greely), Montana, 
Colorado, Union Co. Oregon ( Cusick), British Columbia, 
Alaska, and the islands of Bering Strait. — Plate 2. 
Our plants belong to the less hairy and more glaucous form. 
The name was originally spelled latifolia by Linneus. 
Plants from a high latitude are usually larger-flowered, with 
broad petals, constituting the variety grandiflorum, Britton. 
32. Lysimachion. — Calyx with an evident though usually short tube 
mostly somewhat hairy within: corolla regular, the petals deeply notched 
or obcordate, usually not expanding beyond funnel form, their margins 
then overlapping: stamens inserted in two more or less distinct whorls, 
those opposite the sepals longer and more deeply inserted: style not 
declined, mostly glabrous. 
