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easily distinguished from the surrounding vegetation. The cold
spring vegetation is not significant in the highland, hut much more
common on mountain slopes down in valleys and under hillsides.
In my paper (1945 p. 401) I listed the phanerogamous plants
which I have found in highland springs. They were the following:
Cerastiirm cerastoides, Deschampsia alpina, Agrostis stolonifera,
Eriophorum Scheuchzeri, Poa alpina, Oxyria digyna, Equisetum
arvense, Saxifraga stellaris, S. rivularis, and near their fringes Poly-
gonum viviparum, Carex rostrata, Salix glauca, Carex Bigelowii.
Here follows a list of the phanerogamous plants which I have
found in 23 cold springs in various parts of the country. Most of
them are in lowland areas and under mountain slopes, but only
two are from highland regions proper:
Cardamine pratensis 11
Epilobium alsinifolium 11
Montia lamprosperma 10
Saxifraga stellaris 10
Agrostis stolonifera 9
Equisetum palustre 9
Poa alpina 8
Equisetum arvense 7
Festuca rubra 6
Alchemilla filicaulis 1
Calamagrostis neglecta 1
Caltha palustris 2
Carex Bigelowii 1
C. echinata 1
C. Lachenalii 1
C. Lyngbyei 1
E. nigra 1
Catabrosa aquatica 4
Cerastium cerastoides 3
C. cæspitosum 5
Comarum palustre 2
Eeschampsia alpina 5
D- cæspitosa 2
Epilohium anagallidifolium 4
E. palustre 5
Eriophonrm angustifolium 4
E. Scheuchzeri 2
Festuca vivipara 1
Hippuris vulgaris 1
Juncus higlumis 1
Leontodon autumnalis 2
Menyanthes trifoliata 1
Myosotis arvensis 1
Phleum commutatum 3
Oxyria digyna 1
Poa pratensis 5
Polygonum viviparum 5
Ranunculus acris 3
R. hyperboreus 2
Rumex acetosa 1
Sagina procumbens 1
Salix glauca 1
Saxifraga Hirculus 4
S. hypnoides 2
S. rivularis 1
Stellaria media 1
Triglochin palustris 3
Veronica alpina 1
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