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A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF THE PLANTS COLLECTED | 
BY DR. F.E. BLAISDELL AT NOME CITY, ALASKA. 
ALICE EASTWOOD. 
(WITH TEN FIGURES) 
Tue plants forming the subject of this paper were coll 
at Nome city during the flowering season of 1900. This. 
has lately come into prominence on account of the valuable g 
diggings located there, and is now visited annually by may 
people. On this account it seems well to publish a list of ti 
plants found there, in order to give to others an idea of the flor 
and also to assist botanists there who have at present n0 
of identifying the plants that bloom so profusely during 
short summer. A mere list of names is of little value ¢ 
the worker in the herbarium, but a descriptive list, supple 
by a knowledge of orders and genera, or by some book in 
these are given, will lead to the identification of almost 
spec ies. 
: The Pteridophytes, Gramineae, Cyperaceae, ju 
Salicaceae have been determined by eminent authorit 
_ except in the last I have simply given the lists as | 
a The interesting description of the country wits 
: — 2 me Blaisdell gives an excellent idea 2 of he ¢ 
a Nome city is is sind on the aoe at “the 
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