The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Blaðsíða 157

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Carex pulicaris Linn.
K. & M., 1770, p. 210.—Babington, 1871, p. 337.—Fletcher, 1938, p. 395.
This plant is included in K. & M.’s list, and entered in all the older lists, without
localities. Fletcher, loc. cit., records it from Brjánslækur, N.W., but most probably
this is a mistake (for C. microglochin? or perhaps C. dioica).
91. Carex rupestris All., Fl. Pedemont. II (1785) p. 264, tab. 92,
fig. 1.
Gliemann, 1824, p. 148.—Babington, 1871, p. 337.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881,
p. 111,—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 33,—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 36,—
C.H.O., Fl. arct., 1902, p. 86,—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 31.
Flora Dan. tab. 1401 and tab. 2433.
Icelandic : Móastör. Danish : Fjæld-Star. English : Rock Sedge.
Common in N. in the tracts from Húnafjörður to Þistilfjörður; at Lagarfljót
and in Fljótsdalur, E., it is found in several places. Also recorded from Stapi in
Snæfellsnes, W. See fig. 52.
Ingimar Óskarsson (1927, p. 47) records C. rupestris from an altitude of 700 m
s. m. (Þveráröxl and Austurfjall in Dalsmynni, N.) and the same author reports
it (1933, p. 40) from Hæðir and Byggðarfjall in Eyjafjörður, from 500—750 m
s. m.
Life-form: G. (Rhizome Geophyte).
On dry sunny slopes, dry grassy mó, etc.
Flor. V—VI ; fr. mat. VI—VII.
Max. height: 10 cm; average: 6 cm.
Geogr. area: Northern N. Am.: Labrador, Quebec, Alaska, Rocky Mountains.—
Greenl. : W. 64°11'—c. 79°. E. 65°56'—79° 12'.—Eur.: S.; Scandinavia, Finland
Fig. 52. Carex rupéstris All.