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tenchymate finitur, nee ultra exseritur. Nutricem negleximus 

 indagare plantam ; Salices et Ericaceae arcticae plures in vi~ 

 cinia vigebant, aderat Betula nana et Aim species (Betula 

 ovata Willd. sp. pl.,B. alnobelula Ehrh. velproxima species) 

 unico tantum insulae loco frondescebat humilis. „In alnelis 

 umbrosis humidis Junio et Julio florentem" tradit Pallas I. 



ft — Tuber caulem extollit mox singulum, mox plures. 

 Gemmae stjuamosae vero, semper in eodem plures obser- 

 vantor, plus minus ve evolutae, caulinum future-rum pi- 

 gaora. Superficies tuberis mida, laevis et in vetuslioribus 

 quasi areolata- Radiculae nullae. To „duriore fibra in 

 terra 6rmatur f< Gmel. h c de aliena nutriente radice va- 

 iefc „ Circa radicale tuber florens tubera 5 v. 6 majora, 

 cereo-flava, non connexa," Pallas J. c Scapus caulisve 

 Simplicissimus , crassissimus , crassiiie digit!, e Gmelino 

 »pedalis ad biuncialis," in nostris 6 — 10 pollicaris; squa. 

 ^s basi stipatus densissimc imbricatis, sursum dissitis 

 sparsis. Squamae ovatae, obtuse auminatae: inferiores 

 snbmde breviores, omnino laeves; snperiores (fiores suf- 

 ^cientes) pilis albis crispatis cilialae, calyce longiores, 

 Corolla breviores, 3 circiter lin. lonpc Spica densissima, 

 ^'ametro pollicari, basi pauUulum relaxata, majorem cau- 

 «s ocenpans partem, imo fere integrum. Fiores intra 

 squamas (bracteas) brevissime pedicellati, calyce ebra- 

 cteato, S ex circiter lineas longi. Calyx tubo corollae bre- 

 *J°** monopbyllus, pilis albis crispato - ciliatus ; nobis in 

 siccis videbatur Variabilis, subtmncatus, inaequaliler 5 den- 

 totas, dente postico minimo, lateralibus duobus majoribus 

 mterdum luxurianlibus. Corolla mbulosa, Tm^ens, ncr- 

 Vos a, margbe ciliata, cSliis albis crispalis, mUis et cxius 

 8'abra, Tubus brevis; labium superum formcaUim, porre- 

 c tum, ap i ce biildum, „apice trifidum (?), inicrdnm inte- 

 gnim" Gmel.; infevum minimum, subtruncaium, leviter 

 "lobum, lobis in siccis reflexis. Stamina 4 didynama, 



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