1902] PLANTS COLLECTED AT NOME CITY, ALASKA 201 
glandular: corolla bright yellow, with obovate petals about 1™ 
90. SAXIFRAGA HIERACIFOLIA Waldst. & Kit. Pl. Rar. Hung. 
1:17. pl. 18. 1802-1812; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 1: 249.—This 
belongs to the group which includes S. mzvalis L., and is distin- 
guished by black-purple flowers which are interruptedly spicate- 
glomerate. The pollen is bright orange. The scape is clothed 
with viscid-arachnoid jointed hairs, and sometimes has one leaf. 
Radical leaves elliptical-oblong, with margined petioles and 
Crenate Margins. 
91. Saxrrraca Hircuuis L, Sp. Pl. 402. 1753.—Stems matted 
at base, clothed with oblanceolate, dead, brown leaves: leaves 
few on the stem, clothed with jointed arachnoid brownish hairs: 
fowers few on each stem: petals yellow, linear-oblong, obtuse, 
~— ™ long, the lower half generally orange-dotted. 
sheds beautiful and showy species. 
Ype range: “in Suecia, Helvetia, Lapponia, Sibiria.” 
ie ‘SAxtFRAGA opposiTirotia L. Sp. Pl. 402. 1753.— Stems 
oe » Creeping: leaves imbricated in fours, fleshy, ciliate, 
with a pore in the center of each near the apex: stem one- 
ovis — high, one-leaved: capsule surpassing the divi- 
of the calyx: Stamens shorter than the petals, which in 
~onens €xamined were withered. a 
bg: “in rupibus Alpium Spitebergensium, Lapponicarum, oe 
2503 l¢arum,”” ey 
Helvet 
o AGA PuncTaTa L. Sp. Pl. 4o1. 1753.—Leaves all _ 
reniform, Crenate-dentate: flowers small, white, at first a 
als ove) ee? later in fruit becoming panicled: white a 
ovate with cuneate base, retuse apex, and punctate with 
~~ f0US close dots : pubescence viscid-arachnoid with the _ 
aes per part of the stem gland-tipped: follicles — 
Purple, divaricate, tipped with sessile stigmas: the 
© variable in size, from 5™ to ree 
in Sibiria.” pee 
RivuLaRis L. Sp. Pl. 404. 1753.—A small- 
many low stems from fibrous roots: leaves 
