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Life-form: G. (Rhizome Geophyte).
In bogs and ditches; on wet soil; in meadows.
Flor. VI—VII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 46 cm; average: 22 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: Ellesmere Land and northern Alaska, southward to New Mexico,
Illinois, Massachusetts.—Greenl. : W. 60°—82°. E. 60°—61°37' and 70°—79°30'.—
Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I.; throughout Eur., southward to the Mediterranean. Caucasus,
Spitsbergen, Novaya Zemlya.—Asia: Siberia, from the Arctic Ocean southward to
Turkestan, Mongolia, Manchuria, Kamchatka.—Southem Africa.
Eriophorum gracile Koch (Syn. E. triquetrum Hoppe).
Recorded from Eyjafjörður by Thienemann & Giinther, 1827, p. 238. Babington
(1871, p. 336) doubts the correctness of their statement. It should be excluded from
the Icelandic flora.
Erioþhorum latifolium Hoppe.
Recorded by Vahl (1840, p. 375) and by Babington (1871, p. 336) and entered
in some of the other older lists, no localities are given, however; most likely the
specimen is E. angustifolium.
126. Eriophorum Scheuchieri Hoppe, Bot. Taschenbuch (1800) p.
104, App. t. 4.
E. capitatum Schrad., Hooker, 1813, I, p. 178.—E. caþitatum Hoppe, Ibid.,
II, p. 313.—E. Scheuchzeri Hoppe, Babington, 1871, p. 336.—Gronlund, Isl.
Fl., 1881, p. 109.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 28.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924,
p. 31.—C.H.O., FI. arct., 1902, p. 41,—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 29.
Flora Dan. tab. 1502.
Icelandic : Hrafnafífa, Einhneppa. Danish: Hovedformet Kæruld. English: Scheuch-
zer’s Cotton-grass.
Common throughout Iceland in the lowland as well as in the central highland,
where it often covers large stretches of moorland.
Life-form: G. (Rhizome Geophyte).
In marshes and moors, especially in places with fresh, flowing water.
Flor. V—VI; fr. mat. VI—VII.
Max. height: 25 cm ; average : 19 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: Arctic coasts and islands. Newfoundland, Alaska.—Greenl.: W.
60°—82°. E. 60°—79°30'.—Eur.: Scandinavia and Russia. Central European mts.
Spitsbergen, Novaya Zemlya to Waygats.—Asia: Arctic coasts and islands, Kam-
chatka.
Eriophorum vaginatum Linn.
Recorded by König & Miiller, 1770, p. 204, and entered with localities in some
of the older lists, cp. Babington, 1871, p. 336. It is evidently a mistake for E.
Scheuchzeri.
127. Kobresia Bellardi (All.) Degland, in Loisel., Fl. Gall. II (1807)
p. 626.
Cobresia scirþina Willd., Hooker in Mackenzie, 1811, p. 426.—Kobresia