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base, leaves oblong blunt narrowed below not acuminate stalked, 

 upper leaves lanceolate, buds nodding, sepals oblong blunt, seeds 

 obovate pointed below apiculate. 



E. auagallidifolium, Lam. Diet. ii. 376. t. 278. f. 3 ; Griseb. I. c. 853. 



E. alpinum, Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. i. 5 77 ; Reichenb.Fl. exsicc. 1061. 



Stem filiform, mostly simple, with two slightly raised lines, 

 usually 3-4 inches long ; or prostrate, branched, densely leafy, 

 rooting. Leaves resembling those of E. alpinum, glabrous or 

 downy. Flowers pale reddish. Capsules like those of E. al- 

 pinuMy glabrous or downy. Seeds brown, rounded at the top, but 

 with a minute point formed by a slight prolongation of the testa : 

 there appears to be a furrow down the middle of the flat side. 



It inhabits the lofty mountains of Scotland. My specimens 

 are from Morne and Lochnagar, Aberdeenshire ; Clova, Forfar- 

 shire; Ben Vorlich, Dumbartonshire. In Smith's Herbarium 

 there are specimens from Ben Lomond, Stirlingshire; Craig 

 Chailliach and Ben Lawers, Perthshire. 



E. alpinum (Linn.) ; barren stems short their upper leaves closely 

 placed, flowering stem erect from a short rooting base, leaves oval 

 or oblong blunt narrowed below not acuminate, upper leaves lan- 

 ceolate, buds nodding, sepals linear-lanceolate acute, seeds lan- 

 ceolate-obovate pointed below apiculate. 



E. alpinum, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1. 348 ; Fnff. Bot. 2001 ; F^-ies, Herb. 

 Norm. viii. 44. 



Stem filiform, simple, with two slightly raised lines, usually 

 3-4 inches long. Leaves pale green. Flowers pale. Capsules 

 relatively smaller than those of E. alsinifolium, but resembling 

 them. Seeds rather pale, bluntly rounded at the top, but with 

 a minute central point formed by a slight prolongation of the 

 testa, with a keel along the middle of the flat side ; but the 

 keel in this plant and the furrow in E. anagallidifolium is not 

 ascertained. 



It inhabits the lofty mountains of Scotland. All the British 

 specimens that I have seen belong to the smaller of the two 

 forms distributed by Fries ; they are from Ben Wy vis, Ross- 

 shire ; Drumouchter, Inverness- shire ; Ben na Buird, Aberdeen- 

 shire; Clova, Forfarshire; Ben Lawers, Perthshire. 



E. alsinifolium (Vill.) ; stoles (yellowish) with small roundish distant 

 scales, stem erect from a long rooting base, leaves ovate-acuminate 

 repand-dentate shortly stalked, buds nodding, sepals linear-oblong, 

 seeds sub fusiform. 



E. alsinifolium, Vill. Bauph. ii. 511 ; BeakirC s Florig , Brit. f. 626. 



E. origanifolium, Reichenb. Fl. exsicc. 775. 



E. alpinum, Fries, Herb. Norm. v. 41. 



Stem usually simple, rather thick, with two raised lines, 3-12 



