TOR = 
leaves, half hidden in great white ochreae. Small, red flowers. 
In crevices and similar favourable places. (Fig. 23). 
Elymus dasystachys Trin. (var. aristatus Rgl.). A hemi- 
cryptophyte, with long, subterranean rhizomes (?), and thick 
tunics around the base of the 
light-shoots. The leaves are 
up to 25 cm long, coarse and 
convolute. The straw up to 
35 cm long. 
Halogeton glomeratus. A 
therophyte with ascending x Ss 
branches, bearing cylindrical, | 
succulent, blunt leaves, 0,5— 
0,8 cm long. Flower-clusters 
in almost all the axils. Found 
only in the hollows of the 
plain, preferably where there 
is a little salt. | 
Arenaria Meyeri Fzl. A 
suffrutescent chamaephyte, 
forming tufts. The largest I 
{ 
saw was 75 cm long, 70 cm 
wide. The light-shoots ema- 
nate not only above ground, 
from the lower parts of 
the stems, but also as 
far as 10 cm underground; 
some of them are subterra- 
nean runners. It is a semi- 
rosette-plant in that the ma- 
jority of the leaves are be- 
low on the light-shoots. The Fig. 22. Nepeta daénensis Bois. (ab '/:). 
leaves are acicular, 1 cm 
long. The white flowers are about 20 cm above the ground. 
This species is not common on the plain. It is found almost 
exclusively in hollows and there, together with Carex steno- 
phylla, Hedysarum cephalotes, and Acantholimon diapensioides 
and others, forms what may be considered a special form- 
ation, the Arenaria-Meyeri-formation. (Fig. 24). 
