ge à 
suffrutex, about 15 cm tall, filled with dead and dried sticks, 
former shoots. Forms tufts up to 70 cm in diameter, (2 mètre 
in circumference). Leaves small, about 1 cm long, pinna- 
tisect, stiff, hairy, turned upwards, the lobes revolute. Flowers, 
Fig. 11. Silene caucasica Bois. var. pamirensis H. Winkl. (ab. '/2). 
