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the summer according to elevation and 

 condition of the snow. 



Stems 6-12 inches high, diffuse, 



ascending or somewhat reclined 

 parvifoha 



Moc. Small- or creeping, sometimes reduced 

 leaved to slender naked runners. Leaves 



Spring fleshy, rhombic-ovate, acute, 



about half an inch long, con- 

 tracted at the base, the upper a quarter of 

 an inch long or less. Flowers few and race- 

 mose ; petals somewhat obcordate J of an inch 

 long, much surpassing the rounded sepals, rose- 

 colour varying to white ; propagating freely 

 by bulblet-like offshoots in the axils of the 

 stem leaves, as well as by the usual method. 

 In wet stony places and in the gravelly 

 beds of Alpine brooks, frequent in the Sel- 

 kirks, flowering in July. 



CARYOPHYLLACE^ 



Pink Family 

 Herbaceous plants, often swollen at the 



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