1902] PLANTS COLLECTED AT NOME CITY, ALASKA 139 
ovate to suborbicular, 5—10™™ long, cuspidate; petioles very 
short and broad, a little shorter than the internodes, margins 
ciliate: flowers at first solitary, later with a second flower from 
the axil of the top pair of leaves; peduncles 1™ long, glandular 
like the stem: sepals ovate to oval, acute or obtuse, 5" long, 
3™" wide, the margin purple, sparingly glandular-hairy: petals 
with short yellow claws and broad white ovate-orbicular blades, 
together a little longer than the sepals: capsule depressed- 
globose, inflated, surpassing the calyx and corolla when ripe, 
6-7™" in diameter: styles three, persistent. 
Type locality : “in Kamschatka.” 
55. ARENARIA Rossit Richardson. R. Br. in Parry Ist Voy. 
App. 272. 1823.— Matted cespitose: lowest leaves imbricated, 
the upper pairs more distant, glabrous, linear, three-sided, some- 
what fleshy, 4™™ long: peduncles capillary, erect-spreading or 
slightly curved at tip, 2-4™™ long: sepals ovate, acute, about 
. long, gibbous, with the apex involute, membranously 
. po are with white or purple: petals linear to oblanceolate, 
~ Ses truncate or obtuse at apex: stamens I0, with the | 
= nike ea oS about equaling the sepals: filaments from a 
i, | oo apie aie five-lobed disk at base of Ovary: 
| ben cular, retuse at each end: capsule sessile, conical, ee 
aoe purplish, tipped by the three styles. ; Roe 
ae oe “Melville island.” In Index Kewensis this is made @ 
SyRonym of 4, stricta Michx ae: 
56. CE : | a 
5°. CeRastium atpinum FiscHertanum Torr. & Gray Fl. 
Att ce aba a ces 
We iti aba 
T2188. 1 : : : | = 
. EO kes C. Fischerianum Seringe, DC. Prod. 1: 419. 1824. Boe 
whee 1.5-2% high, villous pubescent below, glandular 
along Qmoely panicled : peduncles 1-2 long: petals twice 
ee € sepals, 1°™: pod exserted from the calyx 5-6". 
2 ? “in Kamschatka.” ee 
a » Cerastium voicatum L. Spec. Pl. ed. 2. 627. 1762.— 
Ms Ge. ae pilose, upper viscid-pubescent : leaves in 
| Cymose th » Oblong, 10-15™™ long, pilose : flowers capitate- 
i Fi NN se ah SL ial Da Beg Se RE ae am Cn cei ata mad rh A cles Ses Eyal ol 
Type locality: « 
7 NS upper pair of leaves subtending the int 
