Greene Diagnoses Aragallorum. 17 



The three concluding the series are, as will be seen, from 

 widely sundered stations, and variously allied. 



Aragallus luteolus sp. nov. 



Tufted, stoutish, 6 to 10 inches high, scapes well surpassing the foliage, 

 both minutely silky-villous, almost silvery; leaflets lance-oblong, 2 inch 

 long or more, closely approximate, of thinnish texture ; scapes flexible, not 

 striate; spikes short and broad, not dense, H or 2 inches long, 8 to 15- 

 flowered ; bracts lanceolate, shorter than the calyx-tube, this cylindric, vil- 

 lous-tomentose with white and black hairs intermixed, teeth short, obtusish ; 

 corolla about | inch long, yellowish. 



Subalpine on the Olympic Mountains, Washington, July, 1900, A. D. E. 

 Elmer ; type in U. S. Herb.; fruit not known. 



Aragallus bryophilus sp. nov. 



Branches of caudex stout, erect, 2 or 3 inches high, apparently embedded 

 in mosses, heavily clothed with the stipules of leaves of former seasons, 

 these yellowish-scarious, triangular, acutish, sparsely pilose toward the 

 apex; leaves long-petioled, 1 inches long, the 7 to 9 leaflets oval to ellip 

 tical, hardly } inch long, soft-pilose on both faces, more emphatically so 

 beneath ; scapes slender, 1 inch long, 2-flowered, the flower f inch long or 

 more; calyx dark-ferruginous-villous, cleft to the middle, the teeth lanceo 

 late-subulate ; corolla purple, the large banner deeply emarginate. 



St. Matthew's Island, Bering Sea, July 10, 1891, Mr. J. M. Macoun; dis 

 tributed from Herb., Canad. Geol. Surv., under No. 18,510 and the name 

 Oxytropis nigrescent, but by habit and stipules extremely different from the 

 Asian plant of Pallas and of Fischer. Type in my herbarium. 



Aragallus Hudsonicus sp. nov. 



Branches of the chaffy caudex and tufts of leaves and peduncles of about 

 equal length, the whole 2 to 4 inches high ; stipules tapering to a scarcely 

 acute apex, rather densely hirsute ; leaves short-petioled, the whole less 

 than an inch long, of 27 to 33 closely approximate minute oblong leaflets, 

 the rachis villous, leaflets sparingly pilose ; scapes with a short capitiform 

 spike of 8 to 16 middle-sized bluish flowers; cylindric; calyx blackii^h- 

 villous, its somewhat triangular but obtusish teeth very short ; corolla \ 

 inch long. 



Whale River, Hudson's Bay, June 24, 1896, Mr. A. P. Low ; No. 14,272 of 

 Canad. Geol. Surv., as distributed by Mr. Macoun. Type in my herbarium. 



