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COVILLE 



Key to the Species of Harrimanella. 



Leaves divergent, linear to linear oblong, obtuse or broadly acute at 

 the apex, the margins somewhat erose but not serrulate ; peduncles 

 in flower barely or not at all exceeding the leaves, in fruit about 

 twice as long; corolla about 6 mm. long; capsule commonly about 

 4, sometimes 5, mm. in diameter H. stelleriana. 



Leaves loosely appressed, lanceolate-subulate, acute, minutely serrulate 

 on the margins ; peduncles few to several times as long as the leaves 

 in both flower and fruit ; corolla commonly 4 to 5 mm. long ; cap- 

 sule about 3 mm, in diameter H. hypnoides. 



Harrimanella stelleriana (Pall.). 



SVNOXVMY. 



Andromeda stelleriana Pall. Fl. Ross. 12 : 58. 1788. 



Erica stelleriana Willd. Sp. PI. 2 : 387. 1799. 



Andromeda empetri/olia Martens ; Bong. Mem. Acad. Petersb. vi. Math. & 



Nat. 2 : 153. 1831. 

 Bryanthus stelleri'D. Don, Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 17 : 160. 1834. 

 Menziesia stelleriana Fisch. ; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 37. 1834. 

 Cassiope stelleriana DC. Prod. 7: 611. 1839. 



Earlier Illustrations. 



Pallas, Fl. Ross. t. 74. f. 2. 1788, as Andromeda stelleriana. 

 Hooker, Fl. Bor. Am. /. iji. 1833-40, as Andromeda stelleriana. 

 Harriman Alaska Exped. 1 : 32. 1901, as Cassiope stelleriana. 



Distribution. 

 The original specimens of Harrimanella stellcriaiia were collected 

 in eastern Siberia by Steller, probably on Bering Island. The species 

 has since been collected from Kamchatka southward to the mountains 

 of northern Japan, but apparently does not extend on the Asiatic 

 continent far from the Pacific. In America it occurs from Unalaska 

 eastward and southward along the whole coast of Alaska through 

 British Columbia and as far as Mount Rainier in the Cascade Moun- 

 tains of Washington. Toward the north, as in Prince ^V"illiam Sound, 

 it sometimes descends to sea level but ordinarily it grows near timber 

 line or in the upper elevations of the forest within a thousand feet of 

 timber line. On Mount Rainier it has been collected at an elevation 

 of 5,500 feet. 



General Remarks. 



We first saw this plant, on the Harriman Expedition, at the summit 

 of White Pass, Alaska, where it grew with the crowberry {Etnpe- 

 trum nigrum^ and reindeer moss ( Cladonia raftgiferina^ that car- 

 peted the mountain slopes at timber line. On the east side of Muir 

 Inlet, in Glacier Bay, at a point about six miles below the end of 



