1902] PLANTS COLLECTED AT NOME CITY, ALASKA 299 
169. SoLipaco muttirapiata Ait. Hort. Kew. 3: 218. 1789. 
_—Stems erect, generally several from a woody rootstock, 2 
high: radical and lowest stem leaves lanceolate-oblong, narrowed 
to margined petioles, equaling or much exceeding the blades in 
length, together 2-13™ long, 5-10™™ wide, entire or serrate near 
the apex, veiny, white-woolly-ciliate especially on the peti- 
les; stem leaves sessile : heads in a round or oblong glomerule, 
often with some looser and smaller clusters in the axils below: 
involucral bracts narrowly linear-acuminate, 4™™ long, ciliate : 
fays about 15, narrowly linear, 3-4™™ long : akenes pubescent. 
: Type locality: “ Labrador.” 
_ 170. TARAXACUM OFFICINALE LIVIDUM Koch, ex Gray Syn. Fl. 
“440—Low, acaulescent, glabrous: leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, 
with petioles exceeding the blades, together 2-5°™ long: scape — 
Lee long : involucral bracts turning black in drying ; outer 
® ovate, obtuse, slightly ciliate at the apex; inner longer, 
oo wit ‘membranous Margins: outer rays yellow, with black oe 
and white lines down the middle; inner ones clear yellow, ae 
wie, toothed at apex, almost 1°™ long: heads about 2™in 
be following species, not included among Dr. Blaisdell’s collection, were - 
,__ Previous year by Mr. George T. Ruddock at a place near Cape 
Car : Ranunculus Pallasit Schlecht. Lathyrus — 
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ae Kunth, Mertensia maritima Don., Artemisia borealis — 
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