SAT Wee. 
long. The peduncles grows slantingly outwards. The flowers 
are yellow and only 15 cm above the ground. (Fig. 15). 
Polygonum paronychioides C. A. M. A chamaephyte, 
suffrutex characterized by the whitish sheen emanating from 
the large membraneous ochreae. A large vertical tap-root 
bears horizontal woody branches, 5—10 cm long, whose 
herbaceous tips turn upwards. The whole forms a flat disc 
resting on the ground; large portions are dead. The revolute 
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Fig. 17. Two specimens of Acantholimon diapensioides Bois., a convex 
cushion seen from above, and a flat cushion seen from below. (ab. 1/2.) 
leaves, a few mm long, are almost hidden among the ochreae. 
Flowers, small, red. (Fig. 16). 
Acantholimon diapensioides Bois. A chamaephyte, cushion 
plant, which can attain a diameter of more than 1 mètre. 
(“Radial flach Polster”, HAURI-SCHRÔTER). When young it is 
only attached by the main-root, later many adventitious 
roots are formed. The cushions are flat as a rule, on the 
level of the ground, but occasionally (on clay soil?) high 
bulging specimens are found; these contain air; (“Luftkugel- 
kissen”, HAURI-SCHRÔTER), otherwise they are solid, filled 
with twigs and dead leaves and so firm that one can step 
on them without injury. In large old specimens the centre 
