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Morten P. PorsiLp. 
The specimens from East Greenland collected and described by 
KRUUSE (see above) are smaller than ours and in habit, branch- 
ing and dimensions come nearest to G. brevipes, Fern. & WIEGAND, 
but stems, leaf margins and midribs, as well as the peduncles, are per- 
fectly glabrous, so it must be a dwarfish form of G. Brandegeei. 
Fig. 3. Galium Brandegeei Gray, from South Greenland, 
Amitsuarssoq 60°45’ N., leg. A. E. PorsıLn & M. P. PorsiLp, 
slightly enlarged. 
What is Galium brevipes FERN. & WIEG.? 
The original description of this plant runs: 
humile valde implicatum, caulibus 0.5—3 dm. longis ramosissimis glabrescentibus 
vel paulo retrorso-scabris, internodiis longioribus 1—3 cm. longis; foliis plerumque 
4is subinequalibus oblanceolatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis cuneatis 2—10 mm. 
_longis 1-nerviis glabris vel margine et subtus in nervo scabris; floribus axillaribus 
solitariis vel binis; pedicellis arcuatis glabris demum 0.5—4 mm. longis; corollis 
minutis albidis, lobis 3 obtusis; fructu glabro, carpellis maturis 0.8—1 mm. diametro, 
endospermo in sectione transversali annulare. 
(Rhodora 1910, p. 78). 
