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Widely distributed everywhere in all formations; is found as 

 well on the skerries farthest out in the sea, as in the interior on 

 the border of the inland ice and on the highest ascended tops. 

 Forms cover of a height of up to 20 ctm. ; flowers late in June, 

 sets abundant and ripe fruit, but only in favourable localities; many 

 fruits do not attain ripeness and remain throughout the winter, they 

 dry up next spring. 



Faffl. 6. Capyophyllaeeae. 



23. Silène acaulîs L. 



Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 19 & 241. Berlin Käriväxter 

 p. 28, Hartz Fanerog. p. 391. 



Common on gravelled and sandy ground in table -land and 

 heath, especially on sloping ground, avoiding humid and occasion- 

 ally inundated places, is often snowless in winter, werefore older 

 tufts often die off at the top or become eroded from the NE. side 

 in the form of a horse-shoe. The tufts become up to 40 ctm. in 

 diameter and 10 ctm. high, but are usually not more than severally 

 20 and 5 ctm., on lichen flats only 2 — 3 ctm. broad and 1 ctm. 

 high. The tufts flower every year, 15*'^ of June — 15*'' of August, but 

 only with a slight number of flowers; the flowers are first reddish 

 purple, later pink, and towards fading almost white; really white 

 flowered tufts are very rare. Sets in August abundant seed having 

 the power of germination. Seedlings and young specimens are 

 common. In cracks of rocks a sterile shade-loving form with 

 stretched joints very usually appears. 



24. Yiscaria alpîna (L.) Don. 



Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 19 & 241. Berlin Karlv. p. 28. 



Widely distributed in table-land, heath and on slopes, but 

 grows always spread and is but a secondary constituent part of the 

 vegetation. The height is 5 — 20 ctm.; it is sometimes branched 

 and often 3 — 5 peduncles shoot out from the same zhizome; the 

 inflorescences are 2 — 4 ctm. long, compact. The number of the 

 lobes of the corolla is very variable, also the colour, from deep 

 crimson to light shades, and towards decay the colour fades a 

 great deal. 



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