562 THE PUR SEALS OF THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS 



ANNOTATED LIST OF SPECIES. 



PHAENOGAMS. 



1. Anemone richardsoni, Hook. 



Very abundant among moss and grass. Flowering in June and difficult to 

 discover later in the season. Specimens collected with underground stems from 1! 

 to 3 feet long. 



2. Ranunculus trichophyllus, Cbaix. 



Found in only one locality ou St. Paul Island — a small lake near the village. The 

 water in this lake varies in depth in different years, and three forms have been 

 collected there — the typical, the subterrestrial (var. caespitosus), and "the dwarf form 

 with capillary, flabby leaves" (var. confervoides). 



3. Ranunculus hyperboreus, Eottb. 



Common by lakes and on mud flats on both islands. Generally associated with 

 Montia fontana. 



4. Ranunculus pygmaeus, Wahl. 



St. Paul Island. Collected only by Mr. William Palmer. 



5. Ranunculus reptans, L. 



Common by ponds and lakes on both islands. 



6. Ranunculus pallasii, Schl. 



Growing in Sphagnum by a small pond on St. George Island. 



7. Ranunculus altaicus, Laxni. 



Common in upland meadows on both islands. The specimens from these islands 

 have been generally referred to R. nivalis, but in the writer's opinion are not that 

 species. 



8. Ranunculus eschscholtzii, Schl. 



Not rare on St. Paul Island on grassy banks where the snow lies late in the spring. 



9. Coptis trifolia, Salisb. 



Two specimens of this species were found in 1896 on a grassy bank near the south 

 end of St. Paul Island. 



10. Aconitum delphinifolium, DC . 



From 3 or 4 inches high on bleak uplands to 2 feet high among grass near the 

 sea level. Common on both islands. 



11. Papaver radicatum, Rottb. 



P. nudicaule, L. var. arcUcum, Elkan. 



Common on both islands. The flowers of this poppy are on the Pribilof Islands 

 larger and more showy than I have seen them elsewhere. Murbeck has shown (fide 

 Botaniske Litteraturblade, No. 13, p. 208) that the arctic poppy so generally referred 

 to P. nudicaule is not that species. 



12. Papaver macounii, Greene, Pittonia, Vol. Ill, p. 247. (Plate LXXXVIII.) 



Perennial, scapose, the very stout scapes often a foot high in fruit, three or four 

 times surpassing the tuft of leaves, hirsute hispid; leaves, even the petioles, compara- 

 tively devoid of hairiness, sometimes wholly glabrous; leaf outline ovate rather than 

 obovate, the pinnae oblong lanceolate to almost linear; petals 4 (rarely 5), round 



