Cerastium Cerastium, Ostenf.

25. C. regelii Ostenf. View in CoL , Skr. Vid.-Selsk. Christ. 1908 (8): 10 (1910).

Densely caespitose, subglabrous perennial 1-5 cm, often not flowering and propagating by means of thin, more or less subterranean runners with deciduous bulbil-like terminal buds. Leaves 3-7 x 1-5-3 mm, roundish to broadly spathulate or elliptical, often distinctly connate at base, yellowish-green and somewhat fleshy, ciliate, otherwise glabrous and shiny. Flowers seldom produced, mostly solitary on short upright stems which are glandular in the upper part; bracts scarious at apex. Sepals 4-6 mm, rounded at apex, glandular, | as long as the deeply bifid petals. Ripe capsules and seeds unknown. 2« = 72. Arctic Europe. Rs (N) Sb. (Arctic Siberia.)