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1851 to search for Sir John Franklin, he found this tiny 

 plant growing close to the icebergs. He says in his Jour- 

 nal : " Button Point looked as green as any English 

 meadow, and the grass upon it was not one whit less lux- 

 uriant. The Foxtail Grass. and the Chickweed (Cerastium 

 alpinitm), and hosts of other grasses and herbaceous plants, 

 grow among the bones of animals, and are stimulated by 

 the oil and animal matter which they contain, and by the 

 filth \vhich is inseparable from Esquimaux habitations, to a 

 degree of luxuriance which no one would be willing to 

 assign to the 73rd degree of north latitude." The scien- 

 tific name is derived from Ceras, a horn, in reference to 

 the shape of the seed-pods of some of the species. 



NODDING PINK 



Lychnis apetala. Pink Family 



Stems: one-flowered. Leaves: linear, sessile. Flowers: nodding, 

 petals narrow, two-cleft, included in the calyx, calyx inflated, its teeth 

 triangular-ovate, acute. Fruit: a capsule. 



This Pink is an arctic-alpine plant with very narrow 

 leaves growing in pairs up the stem, and nodding white 

 flowers which become erect in fruit. The five petals are 

 enclosed and almost hidden within the green inflated calyx 

 which is strongly purple-veined, tubular, and sharply 

 toothed. 



Lychnis Drummondii, or Drummond's Pink, is a hairy, 

 sticky, tall plant with numerous erect white, or rarely pur- 

 plish flowers. 



WHITE CAMPION 



Silene Maconnii. Pink Family 



Stems: slender, from a branching rootstock, minutely pubescent. 

 Leaves: linear-oblanceolate. Flowers: few, on pedicels; calyx inflated, 



