Flóra: tímarit um íslenzka grasafræði - 01.06.1968, Side 47

Flóra: tímarit um íslenzka grasafræði - 01.06.1968, Side 47
PIETER OESTERVELD: A BOTANICAL SUMMER IN ICELAND In April when I arrived; in the South all was brown and dead, in the North all was covered with snow. Only the mosses were green and these I collected, together with lichens, on my way from Reykjavik to Akureyri. In the beginning of May it was still -h 6° C. in the North and I realized I was in Iceland indeed. The time was spent identifying and study- ing Icelandic cryptogams at the Museurn of Natural Hi- story in Akureyri. Not until June did I start the real work, a phytoecologi- cal study of heath vegetation. There was yet a lot of snow in several places and I noticed that in the ,moa’heath the de- pressions were full of snow while the hummocks werebar- ren, thus forming two extre- mely different milieus close to eacli other. In the heath north of Laxamyri (S. Þ.) it was stri- king to see the north/south effect; looking north a heath green with'Arctostaphylos uva- ursi, looking south a black Author in his study. and white pattern of mud and an epiphytical lichen in a heath broken up by tvind, rain and frost. In sheltered valleys the hummocks are undamaged. (fig. 1) This breaking of the heath is very puzzling and I woncler whether TÍMARIT UM ÍSLENZKA GRASAFRÆÐI - FlÓra 45
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