THE LAPLAND ALP«;. 2^ 



flowers from the bosoms of the leaves. The 

 stem is woody, procumbent, naked, thread- 

 shaped, variously divided. Branches partly 

 erect, entirely covered \vith leaves, which 

 are oblong, obtuse, somewhat rounded, 

 concave, keeled, sessile, disposed in an 

 imbricated manner. Flower-stalks solitary, 

 from the bosoms of the leaves, erect, thread- 

 shaped, whitish, each bearing a drooping 

 flower. Calyx five-cleft, purplish, with 

 ovate straisiht seo-ments. Petal one, half- 

 ovate or bellshaped, exactly resembling the 

 lily of the valley, cut half way down into 

 five erect acute sesrments. Stamens ten, 

 very short, with horned anthers, scarcely- 

 longer than the calyx. Pistil simple, the 

 length of the calyx. Pericarp roundish, 

 with five obtuse angles, erect, of five cells, 

 with several seeds *. 



* The discovery of the plant in question is related 

 in the Tlora Lapponica in so interesting a manner, 

 that we cannot refrain from translating the pissage. 

 See the second edition, p. 135. 



'' I met with this plant but once, and that through- 



