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CRANTZIA. 



1213. Articulation of leaves conspicuous. 



Stem hardly rising from the ground ; leaves somewhat 

 hollow ; stalks of the umbels generally much shorter than 

 the leaves ; flowers very small ; fruit rather turgid. 



C. lineata. 



ACIPHYLLA. 



1214. Leaves elongate-linear, blunt, undivided. 



Slender alpine plant ; leaves mostly basal, somewhat 

 channelled, finely streaked ; fruitlets rather large, dorsally 

 convex ; umbellules few to each umbel. Figure 63. 



A. simplicifolia. 



Leaves dissected into broad-linear pungent segments. 



Robust alpine plant ; leaves large, mostly basal, bi- or 

 tri-pinnate, their segments only slightly spreading, some- 

 what channelled, finely streaked, very shining ; fruit- 

 lets dorsally convex ; umbellules many to each umbel. 



A. glacialis. 



HUANACA. 



1215. Glabrous or slightly beset with hairlets. 



Humble alpine plant ; leaves on comparatively long stalks, 

 from ovate-orbicular to cordate, entire ; umbel solitary ; 

 length of fruitlets but little exceeding their breadth ; 

 oil-ducts (vittae) none. H. liyclrocotylea. 



1216. Creeping. 



Glabrous alpine herb ; leaves from orbicular- to renate- 

 cordate, bluntly lobed and crenate ; umbels sessile or 

 short-stalked, capitular ; calyx-lobes about half as long 

 as the petals, acute ; petals minute, greenish ; fruitlets 

 dorsally somewhat compressed. A. Mtielleri. 



Tufted ............ ...... 1217 



1217. Calyx lobes much smaller than the petals, almost 



obliterated. 



Glabrous alpine herb ; leaves radical, shining, wedge- 

 shaped, short-lobed or indented at the summit, downward 

 narrowed into long stalks ; umbels few-flowered or still 

 more reduced, somewhat paniculate ; petals conspicuous, 

 white ; fruitlets dorsally quite convex. 



A. cuneifolia. 



