a] PLANTS COLLECTED AT NOME CITY, ALASKA 213 
1846-1851. 7. arctica Fisch. Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2: 121. 1840. 
_ Stems very slender, filiform, about 7 high, with 1 or 2 very 
_ small leaves (not more than 5 ™™ long) below the whorl: whorled 
_ keaves oblanceolate to obovate, entire, thin, varying in size from 
‘ s-15™: flower solitary ona filiform stem about as long as the 
rest of the plant: sepals 6, narrowly linear-acuminate, reddish: 
petals white, narrowly obovate or elliptical, mucronate at apex, 
‘§™ long, almost twice as long as the sepals. 
: In regard to 7. Europaea in F1. Lapp., Linnaeus says that the divisions 
: sf the corolla are acute when the plant grows in dry places, obtuse in wet 
_ ‘Plees. This differs from 7. arctica, according to the description, in having 
_ Petals mucronate instead of obtuse. 
: range: “Western shore and islands, from Sandy bay, in Clarence 
‘Szaits (Tolmie), to Unalashka, Langsdorff, Chamisso.” 
PLUMBAGINACEAE, 
ie 132. ARMERIA vuLGARIS Willd. Enum. 133. Statice Armeria 
: ge Pl. 274. 1753.—Root vertical, slender, fusiform : caudex 
vee % othed below with the brown sheathing dilated petioles 
former leaves ; above with the rosulate cluster of green leaves : 
linear, obtuse or acute, about as broad as the scape and 
times shorter, ciliate on the margins, otherwise entire : 
, ss glabrous, 1-2 high, capped by the head of flowers; 
St sheathing the stem, connate, laciniate, brown; — 
Scarious ; inner ones among the flowers similar but : 
: gma the flowers: these on short slender pedicels: 
: th the border 5-toothed, with erosely margined submu- 
a ees, hair iry on the ribs below, white suffused with | a 
me on ina te, with 10 ribs densely clothed with upwardly- _ 
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oS [To be concluded] 
» *rown tinged with pink, orbicular or broadly ovate, one o 
us forms of this variable species, some of which : 
