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The herbarium-specimens in the Museum of Copenhagen con- 

 firmed this only in so far as that several stems appeared to 

 have been prostrate to a greater or lesser degree. The 2—3 

 upper stem-leaves may subtend floral-axes, which each bear 

 from one to two lateral green bracteoles. lietween the principal 

 axis and the lateral axes there is sometimes antidromy, some- 

 times homodromy. — The principal bud, in each of the few 

 Greenland plants preserved in spirit, was only about 2 mm. 

 long while, in the specimens from the other localities it always 

 had several fully-developed leaves; all were gathered 

 at the same time, the middle of July. 



The non-flowering specimens grow monopodiaily 



and have a terminal rosette ; the latter, as in the 



flowering specimens, has externally a few scale-leaves. 



P '■ The flower has five perigone-leaves densely 



Cialis. covered with reddish-brown hairs, and five nectary- 



Aimostnpe jg^^^gg i ^^igh are whitc in tlie first part of the 



fruit irom t^ 



the Færoes, floweriug pcriod, and are about twice as long as 



21. 8. 1897 n f : 



(about 5/j). the sepals. Both the perigone-leaves and the nee- 

 Herbarium- . ..... Л1Р- л 



material); tary-lcaves persist uutil the ripenmg oi the iruits and 

 sem., seed, ц^^ former bccomc somcwhat dull crimson in colour 

 (Lindman), Norman states that the flower with ripe fruits has 

 almost the same appearance as has the young flower. The fruit 

 is somewhat flattened and has a rather long beak (Fig. 2). 



Lindman records that the flower is protandrous in Scan- 

 dinavia; my material, which was scanty in reference to this 

 question, indicated the same. The anthers of the numerous 

 stamens are extrorse ; the filaments are short previous to 

 flowering; the outer ones elongate first, and their anthers open 

 after the nectary-leaves have expanded. The numerous carpels 

 (120 — i 50) which are closely placed in the bud do not spread 

 out until but one or two of the numerous whorls of stamens 



^ The German "HonigbläUer"; cf. Prantl.: Beiträge z. Morph, und. Svstem. 

 d. Ranunculaceen. Engler, Bot. Jahr., 1888. 



