straight, and shining glandular hairs. Under the microscope these glandular hairs prove 

 to consist of 2 — 4, generally 3 cylindrical cells, with an upper one round and secernent. 

 The leaves are generally glabrous, or the upper ones scattered glandular-hairy. The 

 petals are obovate, generally somewhat longer than the dark, distinctly 3-nerved, broad- 

 ly lanceolate, nearly glabrous or slightly glandular-hairy sepals. The flower is about 8 

 mm. in diameter. The length of the pedicels is 2 to 4 times the length of the calyx. 



This form I refer to subspecies Gerardi Willd. f. typica Willd. Spec. PI. p. 2729; 

 Regel, 1. c. p. 224. Alsine verna et nivalis Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 348. Alsine 

 Gerardi Reichenb. Ic. Fl, Germ. V, tab. 208. Alsine costata y pulchella Bunge in Ledeb. 

 Fl. Alt. II, p. 171. 



In the Altaian, above the tree limit, in gravelly and stony places, with flowers at 

 the end of July. 



Distribution: Alpine tracts of Europe, Novaya Zemlya, arctic Siberia, the Altai, 

 the Sayansk district, Baikal, Trans Baikal, northern Mongolia, the Caucasus, Russian 

 Turkestan, the Thian Shan, North Africa, North America. 



Alsine arctica (Stev.) Fenzl, Verbreit. Alsin. in Tab. Synopt. (1833) p. 18; Fenzl in 

 Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 1, p. 355; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 589, no. 226; Regel, PI. 

 Radd. (1862) p. 227, no. 303; Kptu. $ji. Ajit. I (1901) p. 158. Arenaria arctica Stev. in 

 DC. Prodrom. I, p. 404; Bunge, Enum. Alt. p. 24; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 255. 



Fig. 85. Alsine arctica Stev. subspec. scapigcni Regel ('/i). 



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