The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Blaðsíða 199

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Geogr. area: Eur.: E.S.; throughout most Eur. except in the southern Mediter-
ranean.—Asia: Siberia to Altai; Asia Minor.
Asphodeloideae.
Anthericum ramosum Linn.
Gliemann, 1824, p. 140.—Hjaltalín, 1830, p. 157.—Babington, 1871, p. 331.
Recorded by Gliemann, loc. cit., and by Hjaltalín. Cp. also Babington, loc. cit.—
Hjaltalin calls it íglagras and Sikisgras, which would seem to suggest that it is
Tofielda þalustris.
Allioideae.
Allium oleraceum Linn.
Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 2, 1924, p. 73.—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 46.
Only found as a garden escape, in two places, Skriða, N. (coll. St.St.), and
Bessastaðir, S.W. (coll. Guðm. Thoroddsen).
Orchidaceae.
151. Coeloglossum viride (L.) Hartm., Handb. Scand. Fl. ed. 1 (1820)
p. 329.
Satyrium viride, K. & M., 1770, p. 210.—Peristylus viridis (Lindl.), Baring-
Gould, 1863, p. 434.—Habenaria viridis R.Br., Babington, 1871, p. 330.—
C. viride Hartm., Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 96.—Habenaria viridis (L.)
R.Br., Stefánsson, Fl. tsl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 67.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 76.—
C.H.O., Fl. arct., 1902, p. 38.—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 49.
Flora Dan. tab. 77 (Satyrium viride).
Icelandic: Barnarót. Danish : Poselæbe. English : Frog Orchis.
Common or frequent throughout Iceland, in the lowland as well as the central
highland.
Life-form: G. (Root-tuber Geophyte).
In heather-moors; in shrubwood; grassy slopes, heaths, herb-slopes.
Flor. VI—VIII ; fr. mat. VIII.
Max. height: 25 cm ; average : 14 cm.
Geogr. area: Northern N. Am. : (var. bracteatum (Willd.) R.Br.) Nova Scotia to
Alaska.—Eur. : Fær.; E.S.I.; temperate Europe, except in the southern parts of the
Mediterranean. Caucasus.—Northern Asia ; Mouth of Lena; Chukchee Land. Asia
Minor.
152. Corallorhiza trifida Chatelin, Spec. Inaug. (1760) p. 8.
Oþhrys camtschatea K. & M., 1770, p. 210 [?].—Eþipactis Nidus-avis, Hooker
in Mackenzie, 1811, p. 426.—Oþhrys Corallorrhiza, Gliemann, 1824, p. 147.
-—C. innata R.Br., Babington, 1871, p. 331.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 97.—
Stefánsson, Fl. Isl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 68.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 78.—C.H.O.,
Fl. arct., 1901, p. 37.—C. trifida Chat., O. & Gr., 1934, p. 48.
Flora Dan. tab. 2363 (C. virescens Drej.) ; tab. 451 (Oþhrys Corallorhiza L.).
Icelandic: Kræklurót. Danish: Koralrod. English: Coral-root.
This species has proved to be rather common in N., N.W., and also in limited
areas of S.W. and E. See fig. 74. In Arnessýsla (D. 1) it is thus stated to be very
common (A.F. in Náttúrufræðingurinn 4 ár., 1934, p. 103).