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Widely distributed everywhere in all formations; is found as 
well on the skerries farthest out in the sea, as in the interior on 
the border of the inland ice and on the highest ascended tops. 
Forms cover of a height of up to 20 ctm.; flowers late in June, 
sets abundant and ripe fruit, but only in favourable localities; many 
fruits do not attain ripeness and remain throughout the winter, they 
dry up next spring. 
Fam. 6. Caryophyllaceae. 
23. Silene acaulis L. 
Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 19 & 241. Berlin Kärlväxter 
p. 28, Hartz Fanerog. p. 391. 
Common on gravelled and sandy ground in table-land and 
heath, especially on sloping ground, avoiding humid and occasion- 
ally inundated places, is often snowless in winter, werefore older 
tufts often die off at the top-or become eroded from the NE. side 
in the form of a horse-shoe. The tufts become up to 40 ctm. in 
diameter and 10 ctm. high, but are usually not more than severally 
20 and 5 ctm., on lichen flats only 2—3 ctm. broad and 1 ctm. 
high. The tufts flower every year, 15 of June— 15!" of August, but 
only with a slight number of flowers; the flowers are first reddish 
purple, later pink, and towards fading almost white; really white 
flowered tufts are very rare. Sets in August abundant seed having 
the power of germination. Seedlings and young specimens are 
common. In cracks of rocks a sterile shade-loving form with 
stretched jomts very usually appears. 
24. Viscaria alpina (L.) Don. 
Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 19 & 241. Berlin Kärlv. p. 28. 
Widely distributed in table-land, heath and on slopes, but 
grows always spread and is but a secondary constituent part of the 
vegetation. The height is 5—20 ctm.; it is sometimes branched 
and often 3—5 peduncles shoot out from the same zhizome; the 
inflorescences are 2—4 ctm. long, compact. The number of the 
lobes of the corolla is very variable, also the colour, from deep 
crimson to light shades, and towards decay the colour fades a 
great deal. 
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