1902] PLANTS COLLECTED AT NOME CITY, ALASKA 131 
sheath the lower part of the present leaves and the flowering 
stem: leaves filiform, g-12™ long, longer or shorter than 
the stem; cauline leaves generally 3, clasping at base and 
dilated, involute: flowers solitary, erect, terminating the stem: 
perianth with the divisions 3-nerved, oblanceolate, obtuse, 
incurved at base: stamens half as long as the perianth (5™™), with 
fattened subulate filaments and elliptical basifixed anthers: 
capsule when ripe shorter than the marcescent perianth, angled; 
the valves obcordate at apex, cuneate at base, cuneate-obovate 
im general outline. The flowers are like small erect lilies, dull 
white, veined with green or purplish lines. 
Type range: “in alpibus Angliae, Helvetiae, Taureri rastadiensis, 
Wallaesiae.” 
33. ToFIELDIA PaLUsTRIs Huds. FI. Angl. ed. If. r:175§- 
1778.— T. borealis Wahl. FI. Lapp. 89. 1812.— Roots fibrous: 
leaves tufted at base, erect, equitant, linear-acuminate, about 
i long, im wide, with three prominent nerves: scape naked 
or with one leaf near the base, 8-15" high: raceme short, less 
car 8 long, densely flowered; pedicels short, 1-2™, with 
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hree very short papery bracts at base: perianth marcescent, ~ 
shorter than he re 
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basal, 
