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and more pointed bracts. The characteristics typical of these latter 
collections, viz. smooth scape, bracts longer than the head and pointed. 
have, together with a few other characteristics which these collections 
also show, viz. tall scapes, and hairy calyx ribs, been attributed to the 
var. elongata Hoffm., sometimes considered a species, A. elongata 
(Hoffm.) Koch. The inland collections listed in the ‘table sometimes 
resemble this elongata (no. 16), but in the majority of the individuals 
examined, the bract do not attain the length prescribed (nos. 13 
and 14). 
The cultures from the east coast, where hairy individuals occur 
scattered in the population, have been discussed above. A collection 
from Kalmar including such individuals is listed in the table (no. 10). 
The chief characteristic of these plants is perhaps the great mass of 
individuals with short and blunt-short bracts. The Armerias at Kalmar 
occupy the upper supralittoral belt of a marshy coast strip and grow 
in a salt meadow. The small cultures from Karishamn and Karls- 
krona, which also included hairy and short-bracted Armerias, come, 
as was mentioned above, from exposed sea cliffs. Armeria grows here 
in large quantities. The locality at Brantevik, where hairy individuals 
also occurred, has already been dealt with. It should be remembered 
that the Armerias from southern and eastern Scania (excepting the 
Brantevik Armerias) come from the sandfields typical of these regions. 
The inland Armerias have been collected on sandfields or on gravelly 
hill slopes. 
A few words should also be said as to the nature of the Armeria 
localities on the west coast. The low, hairy and thick leaved indivi- 
duals exclusively found around Bergen grow as chasmophytes on the 
exposed sea cliffs typical of the shore line in this region. Armerias of 
exactly the same habitus. grow in similar habitats around Molde and 
Aalesund. The mixed Armeria populations nos. 2—5 have been col- 
lected in similar habitats, while nos. 6 and 7 come from salt meadow 
with closed turf. 
The regional grouping of the different forms of Armeria vulgaris 
growing within the area dealt with may be illustrated by the following 
types, which are intended to cover, to some extent, the grouping of 
the forms in nature: 
a. The type of the Norwegian coast, as found at Bergen, Aale- 
sund and Molde. The scape is rather short and densely clothed with hairs. 
The leaves are thick, narrowly linear (cf. fig. 74c), and the bracts 
