1902] PLANTS COLLECTED AT NOME CITY, ALASKA 207 
- stipitate, the ventral suture intruded so as to almost divide the 
pod into two cells. 
Type locality: “in terra Tschutschorum ad sinum St. Laurentii.”’ 
EMPETRACEAE, 
iit. EMPETRUM nicrum L. Sp. Pl. 1022. 1753.— A heather- 
like prostrate shrub, forming dense beds a few centimeters high, 
with small crowded linear thick-keeled glossy leaves about 
2-4" long: young stems and leaf margins glandular: midrib 
Sunken on one side, invisible on the other: flowers inconspicu- 
2g and solitary in the upper axils: sepals and petals 3, pur- 
‘lish: ‘stamens 3, exserted: pistillate flowers with a globose 
3 ‘vary surmounted by a short thick style having 6-g-toothed 
ments: fruit a blue-black berry known as “ crow berry’’ and 
“heath berry.” 
oe ee the ee stems and margins of the leaves seem 
ate to be io... any description seen by me, though these pies 
fomia has s: eet northern plants in the Herbarium of the Cali- 
Tn y of Sciences, 
2 | ed range; “in Europae frigidissimae montosis paludosis.” 
a VIOLACEAE. 
ee Vioia BIFLORA L. Sp. Pl. 936. (1753).—Stems slender, 
— oe leav €s round-reniform, obtuse or acute, 1-2 wide, 
7 Pubescent ; lower ones on long petioles; upper ones 
ciliate 
ae Stipules green, ovate-acuminate: flowers 
ellow mark 
a ed with brown lines on the largest petal, 
"long: sepals linear-subulate, 3-4™™ long; spur blunt, 
thaphe at the pointed end. 
Tange 
‘the lowest petal veined with purple, all without 
ut little longer than the blades ; margins crenulate-_ : 
ap »sul S pubescent: seeds mottled with brown, with a ie 
