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62  — Statistics of the Flora of the Northern States. 
ArT, X.—Statistics of the Flora of the Northern United States ; 
by Asa GRAY. 
[Continued from vol. xxii, p. 232.] 
THE Catalogues of the alpine and subalpine species of our 
Flora of the Northern States, given on pp. 230 and 231, in the 
former part of this acer are found a be very imper- 
fect, through some unaccountable omissions. They are here re- . 
produced i in a corrected joan 
1. List of Phenogamous Species found only in our small Alpine Region. 
Cardamine bellidifolia. Arctostaphylos alpina. 
Viola palustris. Cassiope hypnoides 
Silene acaulis. Phyllodoce taxifolia 
Sibbaldia oan Loiseleuria procu 
Potentilla frigida. Rhododendron aaconn 
reer se ms var. majus. Veronica alpin 
Saxifraga rivu astilleia septentrionalis. 
Saxi sellin var. comosa.* — Diapensia Lapponica. 
-Gnaphalium supinum. Oxyria Reh 
Nabalus Boottir. Betula n 
Nabalus nanus. 55 pla 
Vaccinium cespitosum. Salia Uva-Ursi 
* This is a recent discovery, on Mount Katahdin, Maine, by J oseph Blake, Esq. 
a h had A. the rans; tn ac ae as a native of Canada, but this was hardl 
edited: it has long be srenge ngs dor. But oy a, which is 
plainly a ‘aise “of 8. atellari pee 5 in this co arg only from = sae Isl- 
and from Sitcha on the no methweat ¢ cast, With this “pie Ir as 
interfoi of nt soa which I think cannot have been really ‘iptind on the 
White Mountain elsewhere within our limits: Pursh must have mistaken some- 
thing else for it it in "Prof enue herbarium, as well as for ‘Alchemilla y alpina: More- 
over, it is wrongly marked in ‘the Manual of mat N. States, as also European. 
e following points likewise need correctio 
in p. 207, line 24, the Alle: —- untain aid, in round numbers, to rise 
an elevation of a is excellent and dence friend, Professor Gaye, 
informs m 
me that ha results of his bar ments ma ade during the past 
summer assign to the Bla a "es anta an ot elevaion, of fi fally 6710 we above the level 
of the sea. Yet the sum red with trees (mostly Abie which, 
however, are nh being ¢ hacing 
Page 217, et seq. The ikehe ag Bre Roe | be made to the table, in their 
proper places, To the second column, ra-European genera of E. North 
America, Phaseolus and Aralia. To the cg pm of temperate E. Asia, in- 
jing lodea, Stylosanthes, Phaseolus, Galactia, Amphicarpea, 
Centrosema, Itea, Fothergi illa, Aralia, Triosteum? Spermacoce, Nabalus, Gaultheria, 
mieten Phytolacea, ifras ? Paaench (and others remain to be added),— 
ern Northern Ameri 
i ure 
greater parts of which are endowed with a more equable climate 
Page 239. In the heading of the third column, second line, occurs a misprint of 
i agg te Cirsium ilum” is to be erased, as it occurs in Missouri, ac- 
cording to Dr. Engelmann. wai 
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