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its glandular hairs closes on the ovary, which is also covered 
with glandular hairs. 
The fruit, which is a septicidal capsule (Fig. 10 F), ripens 
both in West and East Greenland. It is seated upon an upright, 
straight stalk. 
The carpels are antipetalous (Fig. 10.J) and the lobes of 
the stigma antisepalous; the arrangement of the parts of the 
flower is the same as in the Ericacee. 
Cassiope hypnoides (L.) Don. 
Warmine, 1885, p. 170, figs. 7, 8; 1886—87, p.113. Linpmay, 
1887 a, p. 71, tab. III, fig. 37. Exstam, 1894, p. 428. ABROMEIT, 
1899, p. 49. Skorrspere, 1901, p. 12. Haczunn, 1905, p. 26. SyLvEn, 
1906, p. 131. 
Material preserved in spirit, and observations from Green- 
land and the north of Scandinavia. 
A creeping dwarf shrub with a strong primary root. The 
prostrate, woody stems, which are often covered by moss and 
soil, frequently give off many very slender, but much branched 
roots. Hence it may spread over large patches of ground and 
break up into independent plants. The stems branch sparingly, 
generally with one to two branches from the upper part of the 
year’s shoots, especially when the latter produce flowers. But 
owing to the shortness of the year’s shoots numerous branches 
often occur crowded together into dense cushions. 
The buds have no scale-leaves, but the year’s shoots have 
small foliage-leaves at their bases, the limits of each year’s 
growth are therefore not distinctly marked. 
The stems are slender (usually about 1 mm. thick), but 
may attain to a thickness of 4mm. The wood of an 11-vears- 
old branch, according to Haciunp, was only 1°25 mm. in diameter, 
its largest annual ring being 0°25 mm. 
The foliage-leaves are more or less erect (Figs. 13, 14); 
they remain several years on the branches, but very possibly 
