The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Page 87
THE TARAXACUM-FLORA OF IGELAND
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breviter, sat late erecto- vel patenti-spinulosum, ceterum + laeve, in pyramidem
0.6—0.7 longam, sat conico-cylindricam abiens. Rostrum 8—9 mm longum.
T. dilutisquameum has obovate-lanceolate bright leaves with a strongly purple-
brown-spotted, sometimes perfectly purple-brown surface; narrower bright outer
bracts and strongly radiating heads.—^The species was previously referred to T.
naevosum Dahlst., but it is a distinct species; in my garden I have had offspring
of individuals from various places in N. Iceland. They all turned out true to type.
In the Bot. Museum of Copenhagen there are specimens from Igaliko, the old Norse
settlement in Greenland. The species has probably been introduced from Iceland.
It is spontaneous.
Habitat: Wet, grassy mountain-slopes, meadows, birch-copses.
Localities: Blönduós, 13.VII.1937, Varmahlíð, 15.VII.1937, plentiful, fr., phot.,
Urðir, 5.VII.1924 (A. Skjot-Pedersen), Hof in Hörgárdalur, 17.VII.1898 (Ólafur
Davíðsson), Siglufjörður, 13.VII.1935, Akureyri, 22.VII.1937, Nes ! and Skógar
in Fnjóskadalur, 23.VII.1937, Laugar ! and Einarsstaðir ! at Breiðamýri, 24.VII.
1937, Skútustaðir ! at Mývatn, 22.VII.1935, Reykjahlíð at Mývatn, and a birch-
copse near Reykjahlið !, 25.VII.1937, Vaglaskógur in Fnjóskadalur, 16.VII.1935,
Lón, 16.VII.1935. N.
Geogr. Distr.: Found, outside Iceland, in Greenland and on the Faeroes. (Green-
land: Igaliko, 21.VII.1926 (Knud Jessen)).
83. Taraxacum rubellum M.P.Chr. n. sp.
Spec. orig.: Iceland, Varmahlíð, 16.VII.1937, leg. M. P. Christiansen. Plate VII,
fig. 83. Plate XXXVI, fig. 193.
Planta 30—45 cm alta. Folia obscure glauco-viridia—prasino-viridia, valde pur-