Some Ecologic Features of the Subterranean Organs of Alpine Plants

Inasmuch as the low, compact form of the aerial portions of alpine plants is so conspicuously adapted to the exacting conditions of alpine environment, it might logically be suspected that the less evident subterranean organs of these plants also would possess special structural characteristics of particular advantage in such climates. So far as the writer is aware, no special investigation into this phase of the autecology of alpine plants has previously been published, although Holm ('08, '22, '27) has made a number of pertinent observations.