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flexuous flowering stems. Leaves of the barren shoots varying 

 from broadly oval-obovate to elliptical-oblanceolate, those of the 

 flowering stem oval or elliptical. First pair of bracts smaller than 

 the stem-leaves, ovate, generally with a narrow membranous 

 margin ; secondary bracts elliptical-lanceolate, very much shorter 

 than the flowering pedicels, with distinct membranous margins, or 

 sometimes almost entirely sub-membranous. Flowers few, 1 to 6, 

 Sepals broadly-lanceolate, obtuse, with broad membranous margins ; 

 the herbaceous part with numerous rather long articulated simple 

 hairs, and with or without shorter hairs terminated by glands ; 

 rarely glabrous. Petals twice as long as the calyx, obovate, bifid. 

 Fruit-stalks much longer than the calyx, slightly spreading. Cap- 

 sule cylindrical-ovoid, exserted, nearly twice as long as the sepals, 

 slightly curved upwards, inclined so as to form an obtuse angle 

 with the pedicel. Seeds reddish-brown, covered with acute tuber- 

 cles, which are wrinkled at the base. Plant with short hairs tipped 

 with glands, and more numerous and longer articulated white 

 woolly hairs ; rarely sub-glabrous. 



Var. a, lanatum. 



C. lanatum, Lam. Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. VoL VI. Caryoph. Tab. CCXXXII. 



Fig. 4976. 



Plant with numerous long woolly hairs. 

 Var. 0, piihescens. 



C. alpinum ?, Eeich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VI. Caryoph. Tab. CCXXXII. 



Fig. 4977. 

 C. alpiuum, var. hirsutum, Gr. & Godr. % Fl. de France, Vol. I. p. 271. 



Plant with short hairs. 



On rocks on high mountains. Ptather local. Most common 

 on mica-slate rocks in Scotland, — as on the Breadalbane and Clova 

 mountains ; but it has also occurred on Snowdon, Cai*narvonshire ; 

 Ilelvellyn, Cumberland ; and is found on most of the higher Scottish 

 mountains as far North as Sutherlandshire or perhaps Orkney. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer and Autumn. 



Barren shoots short, 1 to 2 inches long. Flowering stems 3 to 6 

 inches high, decumbent at the base, and bent at the lower nodes. 

 Leaves of the barren shoots and those on the lower part of the 

 stem generally but not always narrowed at the base, f to ^ inch 

 long; other stem-leaves generally broadly-elliptical, -^ to f inch 

 long, all obtuse or acute. First pair of bracts not half the size of 

 the stem-leaves. Peduncles very long, having often small secondary 



