Coordinate term: germ

Bowfell is not among the places he must visit, but viviparous alpine bistort grows there at over 1,800ft, and there is also interrupted clubmoss, which grows too in Rossett Ghyll and up Great Langdale on the grassy slopes among damp rocks.

The three most important minor characters are Ensign von Krixlow, who serves in the same battalion, and the poet Weiler and under-sergeant Frôbel, who serve in the same platoon as Gadsky.

introverted: self-involved, turned within the self