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variable in number: capsule ovate to oblong-ovate, twice longer than 

 the calyx or more : seeds variable as in B. marina, usually wingless 

 and smooth or nearly so. — On the coast from Labrador to eastern 

 Maine : Bonne Esperance, Labrador, and Rimouski County, Quebec 

 (J. A. Allen) ; Anticosti and Piince Edward Islands (J. Macoun) ; 

 Kent Co., N. B. (J. Fowler and J. Macoun) ; Eastport, Maine (W. 

 G. Farlow). This plant is clearly distinct from B. marina^ as has 

 been pointed out by Dr. Britton (Torr. Bull. 16. 127), who refers it 

 with little doubt to Spergularia salina, Presl. This, however, is 

 generally regarded as merely a synonym for one of the forms of 

 B. marina. I have been unable to identify our plant with any for- 

 eign species, and have given it a specific name having reference to its 

 extreme northern habitat. In choosing between the two generic 

 names proposed by Adanson, Tissa and Buda, which are on an 

 equality as respects priority of publication, the adoption of Buda by 

 Dumortier in 1827 in my opinion leaves no room for debate. In 

 this decision I have reason to believe myself also in accord with 

 the best botanical authorities of England. In my use hitherto of 

 Lepigonum, " Fries," in preference to Spergularia, Presl, for the 

 name of this genus, I have been in error through overlooking a note 

 by Fries upon the final page of his Flora Hallandica, wliere, in cor- 

 rection or definition of his previous statement, he expressly makes 

 Lepigonum a subdivision of Arenaria. The first one to use Lepigo- 

 num as a generic name was Wahlberg in his Flora Gothoburgensis 

 (1820-24), which was subsequent to Presl's adoption of the name 

 Spergidaria. 



Trifolium Catalin^. Annual, low, branching from the root, 

 appressed villous-pubescent, the ultimate or penultimate nodes of the 

 branches elongated and bearing a single or two approximate sessile 

 heads subtended each by a nearly sessile trifoliate leaf: leaflets oblong- 

 obovate, obtuse or broadly emarginate, erosely dentate, 3 or 4 lines 

 long ; stipules ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire : heads small, 

 ovate ; flowers sessile in whorls : calyx-tube coriaceous, narrow-cam- 

 panulate, much shorter than the attenuate-subulate erect and rather 

 rigid plumose teeth ; corolla narrow, purplish, little exceeding the 

 calyx. — Santa Catalina Island, California; T. S. Brandegee, May, 

 1890. A remarkable species, unlike ordinary American forms and of 

 a distinct European type, most nearly resembling T. saxatile of the 

 high Alps of Switzerland. In this respect it is a counterpart of the 

 Silene multinervia, described on a previous page, and a few other spe- 

 cies, and even genera, which form an interesting element in the flora 



