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Abundantly flowering and fruiting. 
No doubt normally hibernating snow-covered. 
V 142. Melandrium affine J. VAHL. 
On sand, gravel, clayey banks, fell-field and in bare spots on the 
heath, on rocks, often in manured soil. 
Disko: Everywhere very common (P.). 
Hare Ø (P.). 
Mainland: Nügssuaq peninsula and the land east of Disko-Bay, common. 
By KRUUSE recorded ‘very rare” in the archipelago of Egedesminde; this does not 
agree with our observations. In N. Stromfjord common, especially on the southern 
side, аз well as on the hills (P. & E.); likewise common in the fjords inland from 
Holsteinsborg (P. & E.). 
A northern type, south of the area only observed a few times. 
The southern limit at 65°38’. 
Flowers and fruits abundantly. 
Hibernating snowless, at any rate in alpine places. 
V 143. Melandrium triflorum (В. Br.) J. VAHL. 
In places similår to those of preceeding one and with the same 
distribution, but generally rarer, but often locally better developed 
than affine. Seems to prefer manured soil to а greater extent than 
the preceding one, and here it becomes tall and vigorous. 
In the field often very difficult to distinguish from affine, though 
always more glandular-hairy than that species. On vigorous speci- 
mens the glandular-hair can be developed to such a degree that the 
plants are densely covered by adhering sand and dust. 
But in the seeds we have a never failing character of distinction 
(Cir. LANGE and ABROMEIT). 
As the preceding, a northern type and almost with the same 
southern limit, about 65°40’. 
| 144. Silene acaulis L. 
In almost all sorts of soil: sand, gravel, open spots in the heath 
and bogs, in crevices and shelves. In quick-sand it often forms spots 
more than one meter in diameter. 
Very common throughout the whole area. 
Widely distributed in Greenland with neither northern nor southern 
limit; from the sea-shore to the snowline. 
Abundantly flowering and fruiting. 
Often snowless during winter. 
