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JOHS. GRONTVED
accidentally introduced. It fruits very well
and may be regarded as naturalized in Ice-
land.
Life-form : Th.
On moist bare, sandy soil, on roads; near
hot springs.
Flor. VII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 22 cm ; average : 7 cm.
Geogr. area: Am. : (Naturalized from Eur.)
middle Atlantic and Pacific States.—S. Am.
—Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I.; throughout Europe.—
Asia: Temperate parts; India.—N. and S.
Africa.—Australia.
187. Minuartia biflora (L.) Sch. &
Thcll., in Bull. Hcrb. Boisier. 2.
sér. VII (1907) p. 403.
Stellaria biflora, K. & M., 1770, p.
207.—Alsine arctica Fenzl, Babington,
1871, p. 298.—A. biflora Wg., Gron-
lund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 33.—Stefánsson,
biflora Sch. & Thell., Ibid., ed. 2, 1924,
Fl. Isl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 87,—M.
p. 98.—Alsine arctica, Bisiker, 1902, p. 227.—M. biflora Sch. & Thell., O.
& Gr., 1934, p. 62.
Flora Dan. tab. 12.
Icelandic: Fjallanóra. Danish : Toblomstret Norel.
Found in all parts of the country, especially in the central highland, but usually
rather sparingly. Too little material, however, is available to give a true picture of
its distribution in Iceland.
Life-form: Ch.
In fell-field, on gravelly and rather damp soil, especially in the hills; often in
company with Salix herbacea.
Flor. VI—VII ; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 7 cm; average: 3 cm.
Geogr. area: Am. : Labrador?, Baffin Land, Alaska.—Greenl.: W. 61°20'—74°30'.
E. 60°—76°46'.—Eur.: Scandinavian mts. to about 60° N. lat.; Spitsbergen, Novaya
Zemlya; Arctic Russia; Urals; the Alps,—Asia: From the mouths of the Yenisei
and Lena southward to the central Asiatic mts., Yakutsk district.
188. Minuartia peploides (L.) Hiern, Journal of Botany, Vol. 37
(1899) p. 322.
Arenaria peploides, K. & M., 1770, p. 207.—Honckenya peploides Ehrh.,
Babington, 1871, p. 297.—Halianthus peploides Fr., Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881,
p. 34.—Honckenya pepl. (L.) Ehrh., Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 85.—
Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 96,—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 61.
Flora Dan. tab. 624.