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Rather rare and only in the interior on warm, sun-lit slopes 
with water-courses running throughout the summer or on springs; 
always snow-covered in winter. 
40—100 etm. high, with 1—many stems, the stems up to 
6 ctm. in diameter, erect with 2—4 leaves and 1—3 basal-leaves, 
1—5 umbels on every stem. The umbels are up to 10—15 ctm. 
in diameter, the involucres 0—1, sometimes lobate, the involucels 
many-leaved, often lobate. It flowers from the 1% of July till Oc- 
tober, with fruit from August, the fruit does not ripen every year. 
The corollas greenish-white or yellowish-green of a peculiar sweetish 
odour; the honey-formation abundant; proterandrous. The specimen 
dies after having set fruit, but the stems often remain throughout 
the winter, dry up, and often with umbels and fruits that have 
not become fullripe. The seed germs in spring; seedlings are 
found in great numbers below the dead specimens. The plant 
is at least 4 years in reaching full development. During the first 
year they get but 1—2 leaves with 10—15 ctm. long stalks and 
single tripartite plate with serrated leaflets; the root is 5—10 mm. 
thick. The second year the number of the leaves is 3—6, the 
form is the normal one, but they are but 25—35ctm. long. The 
root is until 3 ctm. thick. The third year there are 5—8 leaves 
with until 50 ctm. long and 2 ctm. thick stalks and 40—50 ctm. 
broad plate, the root is now until 8 ctm. in diameter at a length 
of 10—20 ctm., reaches but just as far as the earth’s crust, but 
goes 60 ctm. into the ground. The whole plant has a peculiar 
carrotish taste, leaving a musky umbelliferous taste. It is especially 
during the flowering time eaten with preference by the natives who 
often undertake miles long wanderings to get hold of it. One man 
can carry with him 15—20 kilogram stalks besides immense lots, 
peeled and eaten on the spot. As a consequence the plant is now 
limited to localities not easily accessible, high up on the rocks or 
behind glaciers, rapid rivers or ice-filled inlets, and nowhere else it 
now attains its most vigorous development, but is going to be ex- 
tirpated in all localities easily accessible. 
Northern limit 66° 19’ lat. N., observed up to 700 mt. above 
the level of the sea, thrives best at a height of 150—300 mt. 
Kilikitak and Kakasuak near Kingorsuak, Akiliarisek, the bottom 
of the Sierak valley, Ikerasausak, in two places near the bottom on 
the eastern side, Kuaralik near the Sermilik road from the colony. 
