The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Page 130

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JOHS. GRONTVED
Icelandic: Kjarrhveiti. Danish : Hunde-Kvik. English: Awned Wheat-grass, Dog’s-
tooth Grass.
Rare in Iceland; found in a few places in N. (especially in the parts southeast
■of Eyjafjörður) and in one place in S. (Prestbakki in Síða). See fig. 42.
Seems rarely to produce mature seeds in Iceland.
Life-form: H.
In birch-copses and brushwood.
Flor. VII ; fr. mat. ?.
Max. height: 90 cm; average: 76 cm.
■Geogr. area: Am.: New Brunswick to Yukon, southward to N. Carolina, Iowa and
Colorado.—Eur.: E.S.I.; northern central Europe, southern Russia; Caucasus.—
Asia: Temperate regions, Armenia, Japan.
49. Agropyron repens (L.) Pal. Beauv., Agrostogr. (1812) p. 146.
Triticum repens, K. & M., 1770, p. 205.—Babington, 1871, p. 344.—A. repens
Beauv., Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 121.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901,
p. 47.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 54.—C.H.O., Fl. arct., 1902, p. 132.—T. repens
L., O. & Gr., 1934, p. 27.
Flora Dan. tab. 748.
Icelandic: Húsapuntur. Danish : Almindelig Kvik. English: Couch-grass, Knot-grass.
Usually with long hairs on the sheaths and on the upper side of the leaves;
more rarely there occur specimens with glabrous sheaths and leaves. Seems very
:seldom to produce ripe fruits in Iceland.
Found in many places in the lowland, within the cultivated areas, especially in