wal =~ PLANTS COLLECTED AT NOME CITY, ALASKA 211 
_ fourdivisions of the perianth may be an individual characteristic. In other 
_ ‘Mspects it resembles the figure in Bot. Mag. /. 7706, 
__ Type range: “in Alpibus Lapponiae.” 
125. VACCINIUM ULIGINosum L. Sp. Pl. 350. 1753.—This 
_ arctic huckleberry has solitary or clustered, pendent, globular 
_tmshaped flowers : leaves deciduous, pale and veiny on the 
: ower surface, smooth or puberulent on both sides, with revolute 
: margin, and obtuse, retuse, or sometimes mucronate apex: berry 
‘aid to be blue-black, covered with a bloom when ripe. 
Type range: “in Sueciae borealibus and alpinis ; uliginosis.” 
DIAPENSIACEAE. 
_ 126. Diapensia Lapponica L. Sp. Pl. 141. 1753; Fl. Lapp 
1 fig. 1— Suggests a plant belonging to the Ericaceae, with 
is mat of shining evergreen leaves: stamens inserted in the 
: Sinus of the lobes of the corolla, and anthers obliquely dehiscent: 
 Spsule loculicidally 3-valved. , 
ern suggest those of Aoneses uniflora Gray. 
erate my: “In Alpibus Lapponicis.” 
: PRIMULACEAE. : 
ANDROSACE CHAMAEJASME Willd. Sp. Pl. 1: 799. 1797. 
Pretty little Primrose differs from the common form of this 
Species. The corolla is white with a yellow eye, later 
a with the eye purple. The leaves are small and 
oe base in a rosulate bunch. The flowers are small in 
“te umbel, terminating a slender scape about 3™ high. 
ee, es Austriae alpibus.”’ eo 
Dopecataron FRIGIDUM Ch. and Schl. Linnaea 1:223. 
obj; es to a high (in fruit): roots fleshy-fibrous, a 
bela ‘e : tock: leaves spatulate, oval or almost a 
cred, ith ot Siabrous ; margin sinuate: umbels 2-3- _ = . 
ny wiavaricate pedicels glandular-puberulent with 
‘ this pubescence also found on the calyx and the 
__-© Scape): involucre of short, subulate bracts: 
Malet ; divisions of calyx deltoid, ~~ long: ; 
