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JOHS. GRONTVED
Life-form: H.
On the banks of brooks, in depressions on herb-slopes and grassy slopes.
Max. height: 60 cm ; average : 25 cm.
Geogr. area : Am.: (var. americanum) from Alaska to Calif.; Newfoundland, Gaspé.—
Greenl. : W. 66°. E. 60°—63°33\-—Eur.: Northern Scand. and Russia, southward
to the Pyrenees. Caucasus.—Asia: Siberia, Asia Minor, Kamchatka, Honshu.
20. Athyrium Filix-femina (L.) Roth, Röm. Mag. 11:1 (1799)
p. 106.
Polypodium Filix foemina, K. & M., 1770, p. 211.—A. Filix-foemina Roth,
Babington, 1871, p. 348.—Asplenium Filix-foemina Bernh., Gronlund, Isl. Fl.,
1881, p. 140.—Rostrup, 1887, p. 186.—H. Jónsson, 1896, p. 329.—Athyrium
Filix femina (L.) Roth, Stefánsson, Fl. ísl. ed. 1, 1901, p. 6.—Ibid. ed. 2,
1924, p. 6.—A. Filix foemina (L.) Roth, O. & Gr., 1934, p. 8.
Flora Dan. tab. 2436.
Icelandic : Fjöllaufungur. Danish : Fjerbregne. English : Female Fern.
Rather frequent in the western parts; in a few places in N. and S., and in one
place in E. at Seyðisfjörður; see fig. 22.
Life-form : H.
In crevices in the lava-fields, on herb-slopes, in copses.
Max. height: 70 cm ; average : 45 cm.
Geogr. area: N. Am.: From Newfoundland to Alaska, southward to Mexico.—S.
Am.: Peru—Argentina.—Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I.; throughout Eur.—Asia : Yenisei (65°
N. lat.), southward to Mongolia, Asia Minor; Hokkaido, Kamchatka.—N. Africa:
Azores, Madeira.