THE FLOWERS OF KOLGUEV 411 



PLUMBAGINE^E 



Armeria maritima Willd. Common Thrift. 



The common thrift was very abundant, both inland on sandy hills 

 and by the sea. The scaly calyx of this plant was in all cases of a 

 bright crimson-red ; so that in the middle of July the plant appeared to 

 be in the flower before it was really so. When the flower did appear it 

 was exceeding small and of a dirty pink ; I never saw one which 

 reached the globular shape of our English thrift. Always the calyx 

 eclipsed it. 



PRIMULACE^E 



Primula stricta Hornem. 



This little primrose was fairly common on the Pesanka plateau ; but 

 was little represented elsewhere. 



POLEMONIACE^ 



Polemonium humile Willd. 



This, a dwarf, hairy form of ' Jacob's Ladder,' 3-4 inches in height, 

 was common on the dry sandy ridges by the sea and inland. I never 

 found it on the peat. 



P. caeruleum L. Var. 



This, taller and slenderer than the former, and glabrous, grew on the 

 peat, especially on the peat-mounds. It came out about the first week 

 in August, rather later than the last. 



BORAGINE^ 

 Myosotis alpestris Schmidt. Mountain Forget-me-not. 



I found this in the second week in June on the high hills we crossed 

 near the head waters of the Pesanka. I did not again recognise it. 



