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Carex muricata L.
K. & M., 1770, p. 210.—Drejer, Revisio, 1841, p. 430.—Babington, 1871, p. 337.
(Cp. C. Pairaei, p. 162).
Carex ornithopoda Willd.
Hornemann, 1821, p. 940.—Drejer, Revisio, 1841, p. 433.—Babington, 1871, p. 339.
Carex pallescens L.
K. & M., 1770, p. 210.—Drejer, Revisio, 1841, p. 432.-—Babington, 1871, p. 339.
Carex pauciflora Lightf.
Drejer, Revisio, 1841, p. 438.—Babington, 1871, p. 337.—Ascherson & Graebner,
Synopsis d. mitteleur. Fl., II, 2 (1902) p. 15.
Carex Pseudocyperus L.
K. & M., 1770, p. 210.—Hornemann, 1821, p. 949.—Drejer, Revisio, 1841, p. 433.—
Babington, 1871, p. 340.
Carex pulicaris L.
K. & M., 1770, p. 210.—Drejer, Revisio, 1841, p. 429.—Babington, 1871, p. 337.
Carex stenophylla Wg.
Thienemann & Giinther, 1827, p. 46.—Drejer, Revisio, 1841, p. 429.—Babington,
1871, p. 337.
Carex vesicaria L.
K. & M., 1770, p. 210.—Drejer, Revisio, 1841, p. 434 and 477.—Babington, 1871,
p. 340.
Carex vulpina L.
K. & M., 1770, p. 210.—Drejer, Revisio, 1841, p. 430.—Babington, 1871, p. 337.
Erioþhorum alpinum Linn.
K. & M., 1770, p. 204.—Babington, 1871, p. 336.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881,
p. 108.
Recorded by König & Miiller, loc. cit., and entered in some of the older lists,
even Gronlund admits it in his Flora. There are, however, no specimens in evidence,
and it is very doubtful whether it has actually been found in Iceland.
125. Enophorum angustifolium Roth, Fl. German. II (1789) p. 63.
E. polystachion, K. & M., 1770, p. 204.—E. polystachyum L. var. angusti-
folium Roth, Lindsay, 1861, p. 33.—E. polystachyum L., Babington, 1871,
p. 336.—E. angustifolium Roth, Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 109.—E. poly-
stachyum L., Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 28.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924,
p. 31.—C.H.O., Fl. arct., 1902, p. 40,—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 29.
Flora Dan. tab. 1442.
Icelandic: Klófífa, Marghneppa. Danish: Smalbladet Kæruld. English: Common
Cotton-grass.
Thc form congestum M. & K., Deutschl. Fl. I (1823) p. 456, with the spikes
on short erect peduncles, occurs here and there.
f. monostachyum Stcf. with only one spike is found at Þingmúli.
Common in all parts. It often grows in great abundance in wet meadows, covering
large areas, both in the lowland and in the central highland. It is used for hay and
valued as a fairly good fodder.
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