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Fig. 30. Sparganium ajjine Schnitzl.
Geogr. area: Northern N. America. Kotzebue Sound ; Unalaschka.—Greenl.: W. c.
60°35' and 64°11'—64°32' and 68°40'. E. 60°—65°37'.—Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I.;
northern, western and central Europe, to the Alps and Pyrenees, Portugal.—Asia:
Siberia, Kamchatka.
34. Sparganium hyperboreum Laest., apud Beurlin, Öfversigt Vetensk.
Akadem. Förh. IX (1852) p. 192.
Sparg. angustifolium Mchx., Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881j p. 106.—S. hyþ. Laest.,
Rostrup, 1887, p. 183.—S. submuticum Hartm., Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1,
1901, p. 63.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 72,—C.H.O., Fl. arct., 1902, p. 18,—
S. hyþerboreum Læst., O. & Gr., 1934, p. 11.—Gliick, 1938, p. 246.
Flora Dan. tab. 2792 (S. angustifolium Mchx.).
Icelandic : Mógrafabrúsi. English : Northern Bur-reed.
Common in most parts in the lowland, not recorded from the central regions,
see fig. 32.
Life-form : HH (Hydrophyte).
In ditches, small lakes, old peat-pits, etc.
Flor. VII—VIII; fr. mat. VIII—IX.
Max. length : 62 cm; average: 33 cm.
Geogr. area: N. Am. : Hudson Bay, Newfoundland, Quebec; Alaska.—Greenl.:
W. 60°—70°. E. 61°—64°.—Eur.: Northern Scandinavia southward to about 60°
N. lat. ; N. Finland and Russia.—Asia: Northern Siberia, Kamchatka, Kuriles.
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