1902] PLANTS COLLECTED AT NOME CITY, ALASKA 147 
75. CARDAMINE PRATENSIS L. Sp. Pl. 656. 1753.— Rootstock 
obliquely ascending: stems glabrous, 1.5-2% high: radical 
leaves of 5—7 orbicular petiolulate leaflets, each 5—-10™ broad, 
the upper one largest; petioles long and slender, about 2-3; 
cauline leaves of 11-13 linear-oblanceolate divisions 2—5™™ long, 
9.5-1™" broad, the whole leaf 4™ long: flowers at first corymbose, 
lengthening to a raceme ; pedicels 7-10™™" long: sepals yellow, 
white-margined, 4™" long, two slightly saccate at base: petals 
white turning rose-color, obovate, obtuse or obcordate, unguicu- 
late, 10™™ long, 4-5™" broad: pods erect, slender, purplish and 
Steen, 3 long, less than ,™™ wide; style short. 
Type range: «in Europae pascuis aquosis.” 
76. CARDAMINE PURPUREA Ch. & Schl. Linnaea 1:20. 1826.— 
ae Rootstocks slender, creeping: stems hispid, erect, about 7% high: 
leaves few, cauline one or two; radical and lower cauline leaves 
Similar, of three orbicular leaflets, the upper one petiolulate, with 
: so callous teeth or lobes, broadly ovate or orbicular, 8™ 
a glabrous, with margins ciliate; the lateral leaflets smaller, — 
x mea 3™™" wide; petioles 1-3 long: inflorescence usually : a 
eas es an entire or lobed leaf, corymbose : sepals yellowish, 
Rhy us long as the petals, glabrous, the two outer spurred — 
cP ane aa purplish, oblanceolate, tapering to a rather brsad oe 
gam a ly long : pods glabrous, 17™™ long, on: pedicels a 
a= f ed with a stout style 1-2™™ long.) 
ae ‘Ype locality: . in insula St. Laurentii,” ee 
| St ve oo OFFICINALIS L, Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 903. 170 
ot two ae eT! from a tap root, branching above with one | 
divaricate branches: radical leaves broadly ovat _ to 
obed, truncate, cuneate or corc 
oles 1.5—3.5™ long; upper 
peta ; white-margined, spoon-shaped, about 
claw ditt ptt Clliptical obovate, white 
“NW distinct: stamens with subulate filamen 
