NEW OB NOTEWOETHY SPECIES. * 229 



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four specimens, all as complete as the lateness of the season 

 permitted. One of these is in the herbarium of Columbia 

 College; another has been placed in the National Herbarium 

 at Washington. 



SiLENE PURPURATA. Stems numerous, from slender run- 

 ning rootstocks, 6 to 18 inches high, rather slender: whole 

 plant pubescent and slightly viscid: leaves rather remote, 

 liuear-lauceolate, acute, 1^ inches long: flowers in terminal, 

 and subteriiiinal peduucled or subsessile cymes of about 3: 

 calyx purple, rugose-veiuy, clavate, not inflated, ^ inch long 

 or more; limb of petals more than half a^ long, white or pink, 

 obcordate or bifid, appendaged at base. 



On the Porcupine River, in the interior of northern Alaska, 



1891, Mr. J. Henrv Turner. 



Cerastium GRANDE. Stems simple, with few and long 

 mternodes, 1 or 2 feet liigh, from slender rootstocks: herb- 

 age vivid green, hirsute-puberulent: leaves linear-acuminate, 

 1^ to 3 inches long, only 1 to 3 lines broad: flowers 1 to 5, 

 erect, short-peduncled at summit of stem: sepals oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtusish, scarious- margined, finely striate-nerved, 

 3 or 1 lines long; corolla 1 inch broad or more, tlie petals 

 ^'ith a sharply triangular notch at summit: capsule straight, 

 f to 1 inch long, the teeth short and closely circinate-revolute. 



Porcupine River, northern Alaska, Mr. J. Henry Turner, 

 1891. 



TissA RUBRA, var- PERENXANs. LepigoHum riibrum^ var. 

 perennans. Kindb. Monogr. 41. On the bleak open hills 

 beyond south San Francisco there grows in great abundance 

 a perennial Tissa"- which, if it were only a small annual, 



^ I have no dt^ubt tbfit the Corion of Mitchell (See Britton, in Journ. 

 Bot. xxix. 303) is identical with Tlssa, aud, counting priorities from 

 Linnaeus, it is, of course, fifteen years older. But Corion is a very 

 ancient plant-UHme. The Greeks seem to have applied it to Coriander; 

 STid it Las been employed as generic name for various nnibelliferouff 

 plants, both in ancient and modern times, even since Linnsena. 



