The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Blaðsíða 167

THE PTERIDOPHYTA AND SPERMATOPHYTA OF ICELAND
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Max. height: 45 cm; average: 22 cm.
Geogr. area: North Am. (naturalized from Eur.) : Nova Scotia, Ontario.-—Eur.:
Fær.; E.S.I.; throughout most of Europe.—Asia: Orient, Siberia.—Afr. : North
Africa.
107. Carex flava Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 975.
K. & M., 1770, p. 210.—Babington, 1871, p. 340.—Ing. Óskarsson, 1927,
p. 48 (as C. Oederi).—C. flava L., O. & Gr., 1934, p. 40.
Flora Dan. tab. 1047.
Icelandic: Trjónustör. Danish: Gul Star. English: Yellow Sedge.
This species has been found with certainty in one place only (Kussungsstaðaafrjett
in Hvalvatnsfjörður, N. by Ing. Óskarsson, 1920. It was provisionally determined
as C. Oederi. It is entered in all the older lists before Gronlund, but there are no
specimens to corroborate these earlier records.
Life-form: H.
On moist grassy ground.
Flor. VII; fr. mat. (VIII).
Height up to 22 cm.
Geogr. area: N. Am.: Newfoundland to Saskatchewan and Alberta, southward to
Connecticut, New Jersey, Michigan, Minnesota and Montana.—Eur.: E.S.I.;
throughout most Europe except for the northernmost parts, and the southern
Mediterranean. Ural.—Western Asia.
108. Carex glacialis Mackenzie, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 37 (1910)
p. 244 (C. pedata Wg., Fl. Lappon., 1812, p. 239, tab. 14. Not
C. pedata L. 1763).
C. þedata, K. & M., 1770, p. 210.—Drejer, Revisio, 1841, p. 433.—Babington,
1871, p. 339.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 119.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1,
1901, p. 39.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 44,—C.H.O., Fl. arct., 1902, p. 87.—
O. & Gr., 1934, p. 40.—Steindórsson, 1937c, p. 100.
Flora Dan. tab. 2431.
Icelandic: Dvergstör. Danish: Fodformet Star.
This species has hitherto only been found in N. and E. In N. it is fairly common
in the parts around Eyjafjörður and at Mývatn, as also in the northern parts of
the peninsula Melrakkasljetta. The westernmost localities are situated in the Skaga-
fjörður valley: Brekkukot and Mælifell (Th.S., 1930).—In E. it has been found
at Lagarfljót between Hafursá and Freyshólar, by I. Óskarsson, who declares it to
be very common in this place (1929, p. 41). From the highland in E. it is recorded
from two localities: Snæfell (S.S., 1937, p. 36) and from Kringilsárrani (S.S., 1933).
See fig. 59.
Life-form: H.
On dry heather-moors ; in fell-field.
Fl°r. VI—VII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 10 cm ; average : 6 cm.
Geogr. area : Am. : Newfoundland to Alaska.—Greenl. : W. 60°—73°25\—E. 66°17'
—-74°58'.—Eur.: Northern Scandinavia.—Asia : Mouth of the Yenisei and Lena,
Altai, Ural, East Siberia.