at the time of Linnaeus. Perhaps it is of American origin and 

 has become modified since it transplanted itself on the other side 

 of the ocean. The other three forms are North American. Lin- 

 naea americana Forbes, which has usually been confounded with 

 its European cousin, is common in the woods from Labrador to 

 Alaska, and extends in the Rocky Mountains as far south as New 

 Mexico. L. longiflora (Torr.) Howell, is found in the mountains 

 from Northern California to Alaska. The fourth form is, as far 

 as I know, undescribed and unnamed. It is with great pleasure 

 that I here propose the following name and description for this 

 species : 



Linnaea serpyllifolia sp. nov. 

 A delicate plant with long creeping stems, 1-4 dm. long, 



sparingly hirsute, more or less coriac 



more or less glandular above, 2-flowered ; bracts 2-3 mm. long, 

 linear or lance-linear, obtuse ; pedicels 5-8 mm. long, glandular- 

 pubescent ; hypanthium subglobose, in flower slightly over 1 mm. 

 ' on g» glandular-puberulent, purplish ; calyx-lobes 2-2.5 mm - 

 long, linear-subulate ; corolla pink, open-funnelform with a very 

 short tube, decidedly oblique, about 6 mm. long and 5 mm. wide. 



This species diners from L. borealis and L. americana in the 

 very narrow and almost glabrous calyx-lobes. In this respect, 

 it agrees with L. longiflora : but it is distinguished from that 

 species by the differently shaped corolla and by the leaves, which 

 are broadest at or below the middle, instead of above it. It differs 

 from all three in the smaller size of the flower and of the leaves, 

 and in the indistinct toothing of the latter. 



Alaska: Cape Nome, 1900, F. E. Blaisdell (Type in herb. N. 

 Y. Bot. Gard.j ; Kotzebue Sound, Arnott. 



Apparently the same plant has also been collected on the 



island of Sachalin by F. Schmidt, but his specimens lack flowers. 



Exhibition of Lantern Slides of American Flowers 



