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The flowers are nearly always white, only exceptionally a reddish 
purple specimen is found. Shade-loving specimens with stretched 
joints are always sterile. 
29. Alsine verna Bartl. 
Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 24 & 243. 
Appears in the following forms. 
B. rubella (Wbg.). 
Kilikitak at Kingorsuak, Anava and Adloe at Kap Dan. 
7. hirta Wormsk. 
Kap Wandel, Kakasuak and Falkefjæld at Kingorsuak, Sarfakajık, 
Kilitilik at Tasiusak. 
0. propinqua (Richards). 
Nigertusok, Kilikitak and Falkefjæld at Kingorsuak. 
30. Honckenya peploides (L.) Ehrh. 
Halianthus peploides (L.) Fr. Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 26 
& 243. Berlin Kärlväxter p. 30. 
Kordlortok at Tasiusak. 
a. diffusa Horn. 
Here and there on the beach and in gravelled places near the 
sea. Flowers in the latter half of June, sets scarce fruit in August. 
The tufts may be up to 1 D-mt., but not more than 2—3 ctm. high 
and incoherent; only exceptionally, and particular in the inner part 
of the inlets, more than one specimen is found in each locality. 
Kingorsuak in several places, Kingak, Sierak, Tunok, Grön- 
lenderpynt in Tasiusak, Kong Oscars Havn (Berl.)! 
31. Stellaria borealis Big. var. calyeantha Bong. 
* Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 28 & 244. Berlin Kärlv. p. 30. 
Very rare. On herby slopes and in copses; also in humid 
shady cracks of rocks in sheltered places in the interior; always 
snowcovered in winter. Flowers in August. Fruit not observed. 
10—15 etm. high, forms as a rule incoherent, soft, but closely 
entangled tufts, but in the high dense copse of willows near 
Kingorsuak it was found only with single or at most 3 ascending, 
thin, up to 40 ctm. high shoots. 
