THE GENOTYPICAL RESPONSE OF THE PLANT 
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west coast. This difference in earliness is seen most beautifully in the 
cultures every year. 
We are now ready to discuss the Armerias of the south coast and 
east coast of Scania, as well as the inland form. A culture from the 
east coast (from Vitemölle, cultivated since 1919) will serve to de- 
monstrate the important characteristics. Table 8 lists the individuals 
of that culture. 
It is at once seen from table 8 that the length of the scape is longer 
in this culture than in the west coast cultures; it is also seen that cul- 
tivation has increaséd the length of the scape considerably. There 
are certain characteristics common to all the individuals in the culture, 
viz. the smooth scape and the calyx rib hairiness, while the characters 
of the length and shape of the bracts vary and combine in different 
ways in the different individuals. 
The cultures from the south coast and east coast of Scania, with 
the exception of one, to be dealt with below, show similarly a long 
and smooth scape and the hairiness of the calyx confined to the ribs. 
The Armerias of this nature begin to appear on the-south coast of 
Scania. The exact point has not yet been determined but at Trelleborg 
the large majority of the plants already possess the characteristics in 
question, Armerias of this nature are now the only ones found along 
the sandy shores of southern and eastern Scania. There is one excep- 
tion, as has just been said. Individuals with hairy scapes occur mixed 
with smooth ones on the flat rocks which make up the shore at Brante- 
vik in eastern Scania (just south of Cimbrishamn). Armeria grows here 
as a chasmophyte in the upper supralittoral belt. On the sandy bluffs 
facing the sea, about 100 metres above the cliff locality, only smooth 
scaped plants have been found. 
The cultivated material from Blekinge (the province to the east of 
Scania) is rather scanty. Small cultures from Karlshamn and Karls- 
krona include hairy individuals, however, and these are also found 
in cultures from Kalmar, on the east coast of Smaland, and from the 
shores of Oland, although their number is few. These hairy scaped 
individuals from the east coast are by no means identical with the 
hairy individuals from the west coast (the scapes of the former 
attain, for instance, the length typical of the Armerias of the east coast 
in general, cf. fig. 38) but it is a remarkable fact that east coast sets 
with hairy individuals also include individuals which resemble the west 
coast Armerias with regard to the shape and length of the bracts. The 
Armeria population examined north of Kalmar has been found to agree 
