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Widely distributed in all formations as well along the coast 
as in the interior. Still the specimens rarely attain a considerable 
greatness (stems of a length of 35 ctm. are rare) and most of 
them are very small. Tufts of a diameter of 1—6 ctm. are most 
frequent. It flowers from the 15 of May till the middle of June, 
but delayed flowers are found. Even minimal tufts of a diameter 
of 5 mm. or creeping specimens of the length of 1 ctm. bear 1 —2 
flowers, that are often covered with snow or are exposed to —4 
—5° C. without interrupting the flowering. Fruit is found already 
in the first week of June, and the seeds are most often spread 
before the end of June. The two forms mentioned by G. An- 
dersson and H. Hesselman (Bidrag t. Kännedomen om Spets- 
bergen o. Beeren Eilands Kärlväxtflora. Bih. t. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. 
Handl. Bd. 26. Afd. II. No: I, p. 23), f. reptans and f. pulvinata, 
with numerous forms of transition are found almost equally fre- 
quently within the district, in the way, that f. reptans is preferably 
found in steep and sloping places and very humid localities, and 
f. pulvinata prefers plane field and such localities where the soil 
during some time of the summer is totally dried up. Both of 
them belong to the most common plants on areas of sand-drift, 
especially where the sand-grains are large (— 1 ctm. diameter); and 
they are often so totally covered, that nothing but the flower rises 
above the sand, but this does not apparently seem to hurt them. 
Fam. 12. Crassulaceae. 
66. Sedum Rhodiola D.C. 
Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 67 & 258, Hartz Fanerog. p. 392, 
Rhodiola rosea L. Berlin Kärlväxter p. 37. 
Rather commonly distributed on herby slopes, on steep rocks, 
steps and in fertile heath, but nowhere numerous and bearing but 
a slight part of the vegetation. 20—30 ctm. high; flowers from the 
10 of June til August, sets abundant fruit, hermaphroditic flowers 
were not observed. 
Kap Wandel, Nigertusok, Kangerdlugsuatsiak, Sten O, Moræne 
Ö, Grus Ö, Kangerdluarsikajik, Sarfak, Kingorsuak, Amaga Sermilik, 
Ikerasausak, Tunok, Anava and Aluit near Kap Dan, common near 
Tasiusak, Kong Oscars Havn (Berlin)!, Tasiusak (Bay)! 
