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oblong, acute or broadly acute: flowers in dried specimens 5—7 
mm. in diameter, the limb sky-blue: nutlets about 1.5 thm, long 
on the inner angle, the teeth of the dorsal border about as long 
as the body of the nutlet, more or less connate at the base and 
bearing minute bristles on their margins and apex. 
A beautiful plant growing on sandy or gravelly soil near the 
shore from St. Lawrence Island and Port Clarence to Cape 
Lisburne in Alaska, and on Herald Island, St. Lawrence Bay, 
Kayne Island and Kamchatka, in Siberia. The original descrip- 
tion was based on specimens from St. Lawrénce Island and St. 
Lawrence Bay. 
Specimens have been examined as follows : 
ALASKA: Port Clarence, 1899, Coville & Kearney, 1970 ; 
1901, F. A. Walpole, 460, 532, 984. Cape Riley, July 5, 1894, 
James F. White. Reindeer Station, July 3, 1894, james F. White. 
Cape Thompson, 1881, John Muir. 
SiBERIA: Herald Island, 1881, C. Z. Hooper. Whalen, 
July 18, 1894, James F. White. Kayne Island, 1853-56, C. 
Wright. 
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6. Eritrrichum CuHamissonis DC. 
Eritrichum Chamissonis DC. Prodr. 10: 125. 1846. 
Eritrichum nanum Chamissonis Herder, Act. Hort. Petrop. I: 
535. 1871-72. 
Omphalodes nana Chamissonis Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 20: 263. 
1885. 
Very closely resembling the preceding but rather more densely 
villous, and the flower cluster sessile among the leaves at the ends 
of the branches, the latter however sometimes elongated I or 2 
cm. in fruit; the closely overlapping leaves about 10 mm. long, 
2~3.5 mm. broad, oblanceolate, but the lower portions covered by 
the successively overlapping leaves and the exposed portion obo- 
vate to ovate, obtuse or broadly acute: flower cluster compact : 
calyx lobes oblong, obtuse ; flowers in dried specimens 5-7 mm. 
in diameter, the limb of the corolla sky-blue: nutlets about 1.5 
mm. long on the inner angle, the teeth of the dorsal border as 
long as the body of the nutlet, more or less connate at the base 
and bearing rather strongly marked bristles on their margins and 
apex, those at the apex showing a tendency to become divergent 
°r sometimes even slightly recurved. 
A common plant on St. Paul Island, Alaska, and also col- 
