Caryophyllaceæ. 



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In Greenland fruit is set which ripens even as far north 

 as 76° N. lat., and fruit-setting appears to begin very early. 



24. Melandrium affine J. Vahl. 



(See Warming in ''Oversigt over D. Kgl. Danske Vidensk. 



Selsk. Forhandl." 1886, p. 129). 



Fig. 43. Melandrium affne J. Vahl. 

 A, B, Hermaphrodite flowers. C, a seed. D and E from male flowers; 

 the filaments are developed, but not the anthers, and the petals differ 

 in form from those of §. From Altenfjord, northern Norway. (E. W.) 



Greenland. £: Slight protogyny. Self-pollination. 

 Calyx 12 mm, corolla-tube about 10 — 11 mm, cal.-st. 9 1 / 2 mm, 

 cor.-st. 8 x / 2 — 9 mm. The calyx-anthers reach to the tip of 

 the styles. The anthers shed masses of pollen upon the 

 stigmas, with which they are in direct contact. Petals white. 

 Sets ripe fruit in West Greenland, regularly it appears, 

 for instance at 70° — 71° N. lat., and even as far as Grinnell 

 Land (Discovery Bay, according to a specimen from the 



