Abstract
OF outstanding interest, and the subject of much controversy, is the tiny boreal caryophyll now generally known as Arenaria humifusa. It was described as a species by Wahlenberg1 so long ago as 1812, but afterwards became more widely known as a supposed sub-species or variety or even mere forma of Arenaria ciliata or A. norvegica-or, latterly in America, as the full species A, cylindrocarpa Fernald. In 1935 Prof. Rolf Nordhagen2, after having gathered together (as he used to say) “a very great material”of it, resurrected the designation Arenaria humifusa ; this is probably the correct one, material from the two sides of the Atlantic being apparently identical and moreover showing a similar range of variation, for example, in habit and pubescence3.
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POLUNIN, N. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF Arenaria humifusa Wahlenb., NEW TO THE FLORA OF SPITSBERGEN . Nature 152, 451–452 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152451a0
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