The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Blaðsíða 198

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JOHS. GRONTVED
Flor. VI—VII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 18 cm; average: 8 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: Labrador to Alaska, southward to Minnesota and Quebec,—
Greenl. : W. 60°—74°3'. E. 60°—74°30'.—Eur.: Fær. ; E.S.I.; central Scandinavia,
northernmost Russia and Finland; Spitsbergen. Alps, Ural.—Asia: Mouth of Lena,
Komandorskie Isl.
Asparagoideae.
Majanthemum bifolium (L.) F. W. Schm.
Monoþhyllum or Unifolium, Olafsen, 1772, p. 165.—Convallana bifolia, Mohr,
1786, p. 172.—Majanthemum bifolium DC., Babington, 1871, p. 331.
Recorded in most of the older lists. No specimens, however, are in evidence, and
it is highly doubtful whether it has really been found in Iceland.
150. Paris quadrifolia Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 367.
K. & M., 1770, p. 207,—Mohr, 1786, p. 179,—Babington, 1871, p. 330,—
Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 97.—Stefánsson, Fl. Isl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 65.—-
Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 74,—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 46.
Flora Dan. tab. 139.
Icelandic: Ferlaufasmári. Danish : Firblad, Etbær. English: Herb Paris, One-berry.
Found in a good many localities in various parts of the country, usually, however,
it occurs very sparingly where found. See fig. 73.
Life-form: G. (Rhizome Geophyte).
In scrub and woods, crevices in the lava; in ravines and screes; in shady places.
Flor. VII; fr. mat, (VIII).
Max. height: 50 cm; average: 29 cm.
Fig. 73. Paris quadrifolia L.