402 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 



CARYOPHYLLACE^: 



Dianthus superbus L. Splendid Pink. 



' A much reduced form of this plant.' 



In the British Museum is an example of this plant which exceeds 15 

 inches in height. On Kolguev I found none over 8 inches, and this in 

 long grass. Its flower is loose and straggling, and at the first glance 

 from the marked ciliate petals, looks more like a 'ragged robin' 

 {Lychnis Flos-cucult) than a pink. In Kolguev I only found it in the 

 Gobista mountains on August 26. 



Wahlbergella angustiflora Rupr. 



Ruprecht separated this Kolguev form from the Lychnis apetela of 

 Vahl — of which the type from Greenland is figured in Flora JDanica, vol. 

 1 3 — 21 7 3 — on the ground that is was more nearly allied to Fries' Wahlber- 

 gella of Finmarck. The specific name angustiflora points one difference, 

 and the calyx also is more tubular, less bladder-like than the Greenland 

 form. I found it first on July 12 at Scharok, where it was common on 

 the sand ridge. A plant brought from Novaya Zemblya by Admiral 

 Markham in 1789 is intermediate between the two forms, while in 

 specimens brought from Spitzbergen by Col. H. W. Feilden (1894), the 

 calyx is at least as bladder-like as in the Greenland form. 



Stellaria Edwardsii R. Br. 



Hooker and Hartmann unite this to S. longipes. Goldie. 

 This little starwort flourished on the high ground wherever there was 

 enough grass to support it. 



S. humifusa Rottb. 



It commonly grew at Scharok in July, in damp hollows where water 

 soaked down from the clay level. 



Cerastium alpinum L. 



This was one of the latest plants in flower on Kolguev. I found it 

 always on dry sandy places, never in wet situations, where it is said 



