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Hah. Shmnslm (Halcorlate Museum) . 



Herder i-emarks that the phviits found in northeastern Asia (Saghalhi, Ochotsk dis^- 

 trict, Tschulvtchcs-land, Ivanitschatka and the adjacent islands) liav^e characters in com- 

 mon with Schmidt's yar. ohovata. As I liave not at this mamijut the Shum-^hu speciniLMi 

 at hand, I cannot say anything definite about its relation to the Saghalin i>lant. Wright's 

 specimen from Hakodate and Tschonoski's (Z>. lapponica, var. asiatlca, Max.) from 

 Nambu in northern Japan have their leaves distinctly marked with reticulated veins on 

 their upj^er surface and broadly spatulate in shape. In one of the Hakodate s[)8ci- 

 mens there is a sterile branch which has leaves all tapering into slender stalks and 

 obovate-cnncate in form. The Saghalin and Japanese specimens seem to me alike, and 

 should be put under the same variety of D- lapponica. The typical form of this species is 

 found in the arctic and subarctic regions of Europe, Greenland, and eastern North 

 America, descending to the alpine districts of northern New England. 



PLUMBAGINACE^. 



182. Armeria vulgaris, Willd. EniUTi. I, p. 333; Herder, PI. Radd. in Act. Hort. Petrop. x, 



1, p. 53; A. Gray, SynoJD. Fl. ii, p. 55. Statlce Armeria, L.; Ledeb. Fl. Ross, iir, 

 p. 45G. — Forma arctica, Herd. 1. c. 

 Hah. Ku rile Islands (Pallas, ex Herder). 



This polymorphous species is widely distributed in Europe and northern Asia, espe- 

 cially in the northeastern portion; and in North America from' Labrador across the arc- 

 tic region to Alaska, descending along the Pacific coast to California, and occurring 

 again in Chili and Patagonia. 



PRIMULACEiES. 



183. Dodecatheon Meadia, L., var. brevifolium, A. Gray, Bot. Calif. I, p. 467, S3'nop. Fl. IT, 



p. 57. D. elliptlcam, Nutt. ex Durand, PI. Pi-att. in Journ. Acad. Phil. n. ser. ii, 



p. 95; A. Gray, Bot. Gaz. xr, p. 232. 

 Hal). Urupl {ex Max.). 



Distrih. Most common in western California, spreading to Utah, and also to British 

 Columbia and farther up to Bering Strait and the Kurile Islands. 



184. Primula cuneifolia, Ledeb. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. v, p. 522, Fl. Ross, iir, p. 15; 



Regel & Til. Fl. Ajan. p. Ill; A. Gray, Synop. Fl. n, p. 59; Franchet in Bull. 



Soc. Philomatli. Paris, May, 1886, and April, 1888. 

 Hah. SImmshu! Paramuslib- ! and Urup! (easMax.). 



Distrih. Eastern Siberia along the Ochotsk Sea, Kamtschatka and northern Jai)an ; 

 the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. 



185. Primula farinosa, L., Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 13; Regel, PI. Nov. Turk. fasc. ir, p. 



41; A. Gray, Synop. Fl. ii, p. 58. — Var. Fauriae. P. Faurioi, Franch. 1. c; 

 Pax in Engler Bot. Jahrb. 1888, p. 211. P. farinosa, var. armena. Pax, 1. c, 

 p. 199 (in pai-t). P. farinosa, var. hiteo-farinosa, Fr. & Sav. Enum. ii, p. 429. 

 Hal). ShiJcotan, on rocky cliffs along the harbor. Etorofu, at Tsurubetsu. 



