150 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 
specimens from the Uintas. J. apetala, Gray, Am. Journ. Sci. ser. 2, 
xxxvili. 405, & Proc. Acad. Philad. 1868, 58 in part. ZL. Kingit, 
var. with naked filaments, Wats. 1. c. 247. — Mountains of Colorado, 
Parry, Hall § Harbour, Scovill, Wolf; N. W. Wyoming, Parry. 
= = Arctic or sub-arctic species, or at least of the far North. 
L. affinis, Vani. Glandular-pubescent, 3-6 inches high: leaves 
oblanceolate-linear, 3-3 inches in length: calyx ovate-elliptic, usually 
contracted at the mouth: petals white or pink; the blade narrow, 
entire or retuse, narrowed from near the end to the summit of the 
more or less distinctly auricled claw; appendages oblong. — Vahl in 
Fries, Mant. iii. 36 (1842). L. triflora, Hornem. FI. Dan. xiii. t. 2173. 
L. apetala, Hook. f. Arct. Pl. 321 in part. Melandrium affine, Vahl in 
Liebm. Fl. Dan. xiv. 5, obs. Wahibergella affinis, Fries, Summa Scand. 
155. Melandryum involucratum, var. affine, Rohrb. Linnea, xxxvi. 217. 
— Greenland to N. Alaska, MeLenegan, and according to Rohrb. |. e. 
southward to Labrador. Warming in Vidensk. Selsk. Forhand. 1886, 
129, states that in Norway the flowers are of two kinds, perfect and 
pistillate, and that the petals in the latter are devoid of appendages 
and auricles. 
L. Taylore. Very slender, 1-1} feet high, puberulent, nearly 
smooth below, glandular above: stem erect, bearing 3-4 pairs of 
leaves and two or three long slender almost filiform 1-3-flowered 
branches: leaves thin, lance-linear, acute or attenuate both ways, 
finely ciliate, and pubescent upon the single nerve beneath, otherwise 
glabrate, 2-21 inches in length: flowers terminal or subterminal on 
the branches: calyx ovate, not much inflated, about 4 lines long, in 
anthesis but 2 lines in diameter, with green nerves interlacing above ; 
the teeth obtuse, with broad green membranous ciliate margins : petals 
1} times the length of the calyx; the blade obcordate, 1} lines long, 
considerably broader than the slender narrowly auricled claw ; appen- 
dages lance-oblong. — Peel’s River, Mackenzie River delta, Miss £. 
Taylor, July, 1892. A fragmentary specimen collected on the Kowak 
River, N, Alaska, by McLenegan, may be doubtfully referred to this 
Species. 
™ ++ Calyx large, much inflated, almost globose : flowers commonly pendu- 
lous in anthesis : seeds margined: stems one-flowered except in var. e/atior. 
: L. apetala, L. More or less viscid-pubescent : stems 2-6 inches 
high: flowers perfect or pistillate, at first pendulous, but becoming : 
rect in fruit: petals in the typical form included; the blade short, 
bifid; the segments rather irregular, sometimes with a small lateral 
lobe; the claw auricled, — Spec. 437. L. frigida, Schrank, Pflanz. 
