566 Dr. Hooker's Account of a 



Most of the specimens are deeply tinged with purple, espe- 

 cially on the calyx and stem ; and the latter part especially is 

 thickly covered with a dense pubescence, the hairs jointed, 

 crisped, and frequently terminated with a gland. The more 

 common state of the plant is slightly pubescent, having the 

 . leaves almost wholly glabrous. The capsule is rather longer 

 than the calyx, and opens with five obtuse teeth. 



Native of Lapland, Norway and Siberia, beyond the Aldan 

 river, and near the rivers Biela and Jana ; it grows also in 

 Arctic America {Richardson) ; on Melville Island and Spitz- 

 bergen {Captain Sabine). I am not aware that it has been 

 found before in Greenland ; though, if we may judge from 

 the number of specimens brought thence, it appears to be 

 not uncommon there. Many of them are from Pendulum 

 Island. 



12. L. dioica. 



Far. nana, caule subnullo, foliis lanceolatis margine tomen- 

 toso-ciliatis. 



A most beautiful variety, with the flowers nearly as large as 

 in the common appearance of the species, nestling among the 

 radical leaves, which are from an inch and a half to two inches 

 long, scarcely pubescent on the disc, but ciliated with soft 

 hairs at the margin. 



This variety does not appear to be noticed by any author 

 that I am acquainted with. It is the purple-flowered state 

 of the plant ; the more common appearance of which is plen- 

 tiful throughout Europe in moist and shady places. It is 

 found also On the west coast of Greenland. In Lapland, 

 in Carpathia, and in Scotland, it ascends to a considerable 

 height up the mountains ; and in the latter country, near the 

 summit of Ben Lawers, I have met with a dwarf variety, 



somewhat 



