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The flowers are nearly always white, only exceptionally a reddish 

 purple specimen is found. Shade-loving specimens with stretched 

 joints are always sterile. 



29. Alsine verua Bartl. 

 Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 24 & 243. 

 Appears in the following forms. 



ß. rubella (Whg.). 

 Kilikitak at Kingorsuak, Anava and Adloe at Кар Dan. 



^. hirta Wormsk. 

 Кар Wandel, Kakasuak and Falkefjæld at Kingorsuak, Sarfakajik, 

 Kilitilik at Tasiusak. 



â. propinqua (Richards). 

 Nigertusok, Kilikitak and Falkefjæld at Kingorsuak. 



30. Honckenya peploides (L.) Ehrh. 



Haliauthus peploides (L.) Fr. Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 26 

 & 243. Berlin Kärlväxter p. 30. 



Kordlortok at Tasiusak. 

 a. diffusa Horn. 



Here and there on the beach and in gravelled places near the 

 sea. Flowers in the latter half of June, sets scarce fruit in August. 

 The tufts may be up to 1 D-mt., but not more than 2— 3ctm. high 

 and incoherent; only exceptionally, and particular in the inner part 

 of the inlets, more than one specimen is found in each locality. 



Kingorsuak in several places, Kingak, Sierak, Tunok, Grön- 

 lænderpynt in Tasiusak, Kong Oscars Havn (Berl.) ! 



31. Stellaria borealis Big. var. calycantha Bong. 

 Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 28 & 244. Berlin Karlv. p. 30. 



Very rare. On herby slopes and in copses; also in humid 

 shady cracks of rocks in sheltered places in the interior; always 

 snowcovered in winter. Flowers in August. Fruit not observed. 

 10 — 15 ctm. high, forms as a rule incoherent, soft, but closely 

 entangled tufts, but in the high dense copse of willows near 

 Kmgorsuak it was found only with single or at most 3 ascending, 

 thin, up to 40 ctm. high shoots. 



