- PLANTS COLLECTED AT NOME CITY, ALASKA 209 
the large ternate leaves with broad round-cordate cut-toothed 
leaflets : umbels large, and petals. of the outer flowers generally 
"dilated and 2-cleft. 
: ‘The leaf-stalks and stems of this plant are used as food by the aborigines. 
: Along the streams and near springs. 
Type range: “in Canada.” 
a aa CORNACEAE. 
7. Cornus surcica L. Sp. Pl. 118. 1753.—Distinguished 
from its near relative, C. canadensis L., by the 2-forked stem at 
‘the leaf axils of the first flowers. 
__-Under the willows. 
‘ aa “in Suecia, Norvegica, Russia.” 
: ERICACEAE. 
° ‘i8, Ancrostarayios ALPINA Spreng. Syst. 2: 287. Arbutus 
alpina L. Sp. Pl. 395. 1753.—Stems forming mats with woody 
— creeping: leaves thin, deciduous, obovate-elliptical, 
3 “ute, tapering at base to a margined petiole, ciliate when young, 
half as long as the blade; margin serrate; surface smooth, 
% sag eagles fruit a red, juicy berry, contain-— 
: which were collected and preserved i in formalin may not be 
x ie to the descriptions they are black when ripe. 
oe se: an Alpibus Lapponiae, Helvetiae, Sibiriae.” eee 
AANDROMEDA POLiFoLia L. Sp. Pl. 393, 1753; Fl. ‘ise : 
—This pretty little plant has globular urn-shaped,rose- 
vers in few-flowered terminal umbels: the narrow 
: ‘not even that ; lower leaf surface Lae upper bos a 
‘ immer ‘in defertis subhumidis muscosis and paludsis etiam eo - 
per totam Sueciam, mixta vaccinio crescit.” ae 
10PE, TETRAGONA Don. Edinburg. N. P hil. jane i ue 
romeda tetragona L.. Sp. Pl. 393- 1753-— Leaves 
four ranks, each with a groove down the middle: 
waite bells are at the summit of the stems and han 
of erect. thread-like peduncles. _ 
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