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Chrysanthemum arcticum Linn. — II, 541. (Jomnion on the rocks of the 

 coast of both islands. 



Matricaria discoidea Dec. — II, 544. A very common weed in the streets 

 of the village on Bering Island. ' 



Artemisia Richardsoniana HooK. var. — Only collected at Saranna, Be- 

 ring Island, on Angust 31, 1882. 



Artemisia norregiea Fries. — Bering Island. 



Artemisia vulgaris var. Tilesii Ledeb. — II, 586. Bering Island. In cer- 

 tain localities very Inxuriant. 



Arnica unalaschcensis Less. — II, (523. Both islands. Rather com- 

 mon in certain localities near the shore. 



Saussurea alpina Dec. — II, 669. Both islands; rather common. 



Picris hieracioides var. japonica (Thitnb.) — II, 800. Collected at Schi- 

 pitzina, Bering Island, August 25, 1882, where it obtained a height 

 of 3-4 feet. 



Hieracium tristc Wild. — II, 853. Bering Island. 



Taraxacum officinale var. Uvidum Koch. — Copper Island ; not common. 



GAMPANULACE^. 



Campanula lasiocarpa Cham. — II, 890. Both islands, but not common 

 First flowers noted at the village. Copper Island, on August 8, 1883. 



kricace^. 



Vaccinium oxycoccos Linn. — {Occycoccos vulgaris) 11, 905. Only col- 

 lected in the Bobrovaja valley, northern i)art of Copper Island, where 

 it was by no means common, but occurs also on Bering Island. 



Vaccinium ovalifoUnm var. Chamissonis (Bong.). — II, 903. Mountain 

 slopes of both islands up to 150 feet altitude. Average height about 

 18 inches. 



Arctostaphylm alpina (Linn.) Spreng. — II, 908. Bering Island, com- 

 mon. First flowers noted on June 7, 1883. 



Ca^siope lycopodioides (Pall.) Don. — TI, 912. Common on both islands 

 up to 500 feet altitude and more. 



Cassiope oxycoccoides Asa Gray, n. sj).* 



This new species was found in a single specimen on the same spot 

 where the rare Bryanthus Gmelini was collected, and at the same date. 

 Loiseletiria procumhens (Linn.) Desv. — 11,917. Common on both islands. 



On Bering Ishmd the first flowers in 18S3 were found on May 19. 



* "Species to be associated with C. SttlUriatia with the habit of Loisehuria or of a 

 depauperate Vavcivium viii-i Idwa ; leaves (2 or 3 lines loug) elliptical, short-petioled. co- 

 riaceous, with ifiarginsrevolute and the costa prominent underneath; peduncle terminal, 

 short, 4-bracteate, and 3-llowered at the apex ; pedicels very short ; flowers r)-merous; 

 corolla about twice the length of the calyx, somewhat urccolate-camiianulate, the 

 orifice barely o-lobed.'" — A. Gray, MSS. 



