The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Blaðsíða 175
THE PTERIDOPHYTA AND SPERMATOPHYTA OF ICELAND
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Bail. (= C. hyþerborea Drej.), a more luxuriant form, growing in wet places, is
found in most parts, but is by far not so common as the main form.
Common throughout Iceland, in the lowland as well as the central highland.
Life-form: G. (Rhizome Geophyte).
In heaths; on dry, often mossy, ground ; also on wet soil, grassy slopes, grass-moors,
heather-moors, fell-field.
Flor. VI—VII; fr. mat. VII—IX.
Max. height: 40 cm; average: 13 cm.
Geogr. area: N. Am.: Arctic regions, from Labrador to Alaska, southward to New
Hampshire and New York. S. Am.: Mountains of Chile.—Greenl.: W. 60°—81°.
E. 60°—77°.—Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I.; Scandinavia, northern Russia, central Europe,
Caucasus, Spitsbergen, Novaya Zemlya.—Asia: Siberia, Altai, Himalaya.
119. Carex rufina Drejer, Revis. crit. Caric. bor., 1841, p. 446.
O. & Gr., 1934, p. 35.—Steindórsson, in Skýrsla, 1933, p. 36.—Ibid., 1935,
p. 45.—Ibid., 1937, p. 36.
Flora Dan. tab. 2481.
Icelandic: Rauðstör.
This Carex was first discovered in Iceland by Mag. Th. Sorensen who collected
it at Orravatnarústir north of Hofsjökull in 1930. Later on it has been found in
many places in the central highland especially around Hofsjökull, in Möðrudals-
and Brúáröræfi north of Vatnajökull, and at Snæfell at the northeastern corner of
Vatnajökull. Moreover it was found in some Iocalities in N.W., by Steindórsson
(1940, p. 169). See fig. 62.
In 1937, when I was working on some older collections of Icelandic Caríces
kept in H.H., I found a single flowering shoot of this species, collected by H.J.,
1918, on Sprengisandur, central Icel.; it had until now remained undetermined.
Fig. 62. Carex rufina Drejer.