- 1902] PLANTS COLLECTED AT NOME CITY, ALASKA 295 
hyaline: rays white, oblong-orbicular, entire 3™" long 2.5™™ 
wide, 
Type range: “in Europae pascuis pratisque.” 
157. ANTENNARIA ALPINA Gaertn. Fruct. 2: 410. pl. 167. 
_ 1791—Heads solitary, with campanulate involucre tomentose at 
base, above black-brown: involucral scales of the male plant 
obtuse, denticulate at’ apex, often emarginate; those of the 
female plant acuminate: upper leaves terminated by a scarious 
appendage, the lower mucronate. 
This agrees perfectly with the description of Lessing in Linnaea 6: 221. 
: 158. Aster arcticus, n. sp.—Stems low from a slender creep- 
‘ng rootstock, striate, villous below, becoming lanate under the 
‘solitary head, leafy, 1-1.5¢™ high: lowest leaves linear-oblong 
‘@ iarrowly elliptical, sessile, mucronate ; upper ones lanceolate, 
- scuminate, short-petiolate, sharply serrate: pubescence on the 
lower surface tough, appressed; glabrous on the upper: head 
: 2 in diameter ; bracts of involucre equal, lanceolate-acuminate, — 
urple-margined or the inner ones entirely purple, villous, 8°” 
38 I-2™ wide : disk corollas purple, glabrous : stamens yellow: 
| Style with the appendages hairy at the tips: akenes white-hispid: 
: PePpus tawny or the outer purplish. : | 
Aescibe it 2 On sand bars of Nome river. 
59: Aknica oprusirouia Less. Linnaea 6: 230. 193i 
: clustered at the base, oblong, tapering to a broad base, — 
2 E icelate and tipped with a callous point, 3-veined from — 
4 P°*% Senerally also with a shorter vein on each side 
Margin, 3-5™ long, 5-10™™ wide, glabrous except for the os 
“sis: heads solitary, terminating long penduncles, 
a high, Woolly-pubescent : involucral bracts in 2 series, 
i the outer purplish, broader than the green, inner 
abe hairy and limb glabrous. 
: Stamens with black anthers: akenes glabrous: disk : | : : 
= Rear Aster brereginus Pursh, none of the synonyms of which ie 
on8* Tays 10, 3-toothed at apex, ligulate, 15™™ long, 
