The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Blaðsíða 180

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JOHS. GRONTVED
Life-form: G. (Rhizome Geophyte).
On dry grassy slopes and heather moors, in Salix and Betula scrub.
Flor. VI—VII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 42 cm ; average: 10 cm.
Geogr. area: N. Am.: Northern Baffin Land, Victoria Isl.—Greenl.: E. 74°10'.—
Eur.: S.; Scandinavia, Finland, East Baltic countries, central Russia, central Eu-
ropean mts., Pyrenees.—Asia: Western and eastern Siberia, Amurland, Manchuria,
Hokkaido.
Excluded species.
Several other species of Carex are recorded by previous authors as found in Ice-
land, but no herbarium specimens are in evidence, and it is also evident that several
of the species in question cannot be natives of Iceland. Below follows an alphabetical
list of Carices which should be excluded from the Icelandic Flora.
Carex aquatilis Wg.
H. Jónsson, 1896, p. 331.
Carex arenaria L.
K. & M., 1770, p. 210.—Drejer, Revisio, 1841, p. 429.—Babington, 1871, p. 337.
Carex atrofusca Schkuhr.
Hornemann, 1821, p. 946.—C. ustulata Wg., Sv. Vet.-Akad. Nya Handl. 24 (1803)
p. 156.—Drejer, Revisio, 1841, p. 432 and 470.
Carex deþauperata Good.
Gliemann, 1824, p. 148.—Babington, 1871, p. 340.
Carex elongata L.
K. & M., 1770, p. 210.—Babington, 1871, p. 338.
Carex fuliginosa Schk.
Hornemann, 1821, p. 944.—Drejer, Revisio, 1841, p. 432.—Babington, 1871,
p. 340.
Carex globularis L.
K. & M., 1770, p. 210.—Babington, 1871, p. 339 (sub C. þilulifera).
Carex hirta L.
K. & M., 1770, p. 210.—Drejer, Revisio, 1841, p. 434.—Babington, 1871, p. 340.
Carex laevirostris Fr. (C. rhynchophysa C. A. Mey.).
E. Rostrup, 1887, p. 184.
Carex leþorina L.
K. & M., 1770, p. 210.—C. ovalis Good., Vahl, 1840, p. 374.—Babington, 1871,
p. 338.
Carex loliacea L.
K. & M., 1770, p. 210.—Babington, 1871, p. 337.
Carex maritima Miill.
Kunth, Cyperographia, 1837, p. 416.—Drejer, Rcvisio, 1841, p. 432.
Carex montana L.
K. & M., 1770, p. 210.—Drcjcr, Revisio, 1841, p. 433.—Ascherson & Graebner,
Synopsis d. mitteleur. Fl., II, 2 (1902) p. 121.