PLANTS COLLECTED AT NOME CITY, ALASKA 287 
-Wye2] 
We have no specimens of this for comparison and all the descriptions are 
so meager as to be quite unsatisfactory; but it is certainly near this if not 
quite identical. 
BORAGINACEAE. 
139. Mertensia Alaskana, n. sp.—Stems erect, 2-4 high, 
leafy with erect leaves appressed to the lower stem, more spread- 
_ ing on the upper, ribbed, glabrous: lower cauline leaves oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate, on broad margined petioles about the 
length of the blade, together 3-8; upper leaves sessile, ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, 4-7" long, revolute, with prominent 
veins, strigose-pubescent on both surfaces, but more so on the 
lower, with the short appressed bristles minutely pustulate at 
‘base: panicle generally of 3 branches, the lower one solitary, 
the two upper dichotomous, 2-leaved at base and with a single 
flower on a deflexed pedicel in the fork; peduncles glabrate, 
reas long, naked to the racemose or again panicled flowers ; 
bracts 2, Opposite, 15™™ iong, lanceolate-attenuate ; pedicels — 
; about ™ long, sparingly strigose-pubescent, spreading, erect or 
erred: calyx divisions subulate, 2™™ long, glabrous on the 
‘Surface, minutely hispid on the inner, with ciliate margins: — 
of corolla 5™™ long, 3™™ broad ; limb campanulate, 7™ long, 
‘Win diameter; the rounded lobes 3™™ long, 4™™ wide; 
vag the throat forming a yellow moniliform ring, those at the © 
' ofthe tube fleshy or bladder-like : stamens onbroad margined 
uae ‘nserted below the throat ; the yellow, narrowly elliptical — 
ps almost 3™™ long, together with half the filament exserted 
e the throat but included in the limb: nutlets exceeding the 
Pectinately rugose-tuberculate on the dorsal surface and 
» Strongly keeled and rugose on the ventral, loosely — 
the seed and firmly attached to the gynobase, Very 
Scar of attachment near the base; the apices not - 
Nene Peg by Dr. Gray under /. paniculata Don., Syn. Fi. = — pee 
“ oS E. L. Greene were identified by him as abe 5 csc 
* It does not agree with the description of his plant and seems 
Undescribed, : 2 . soe 
