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JOHS. GRONTVED
Fig. 40. Zostera marina L.
On muddy bottom in the sea in sheltered places along the coast.
Flor. VIII—IX; fr. mat. X.
Max. length : 80 cm; average: 45 cm.
Geogr. area: (coll. species) N. Am., southward to Mass., and Calif.—Greenl.:
W. 64°30'.—Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I. ; Sea coasts of Eur., from the White Sea to the
northern coasts of the Mediterranean.—Asia: Aleutians, Kamchatka, Korea, Honshu.
Scheuchzeriaceae.
46. Triglochin maritimum Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 339.
K. & M., 1770, p. 206.—Babington, 1871, p. 334.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881,
p. 103.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 16.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 18.—•
C.H.O., Fl. arct., 1902, p. 21.—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 14.
Flora Dan. tab. 306
Icelandic: Strandsauðlaukur Danish: Strand-Trehage. English : Sea Arrow-grass.
Not common, though occurring in most of the coastal parts; especially in saline
meadows but also somewhat farther inland. In some places abundant, for instance
on Rauðasandur, N.W., at Geithellar, E., and in the country at the head of Eyja-
fjörður. See fig. 41.
Life-form: H.
In strand meadows, and in moist clayey or sandy places not too far from the sea.
Flor. VI—VII; fr. mat. VIII.
Max. height: 32 cm ; average : 10 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: Labrador to New Jersey; temperate S. Am. to Tierra del Fuego.
—Eur. : Fær.; E.S.I. ; coasts of the North and Baltic Sea, southwards to the Mediter-
ranean Sea.—Asia: Siberia, Asia Minor to Tibet and Japan.—N. Africa.