The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Page 225

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Icelandic: Berjaarfi, Fjöruarfi. Danish: Strandarve. English: Sea Chickweed, Sea
Pimpernel.
This species, usually strictly confined to the sea-shore, may also be met with in
some places far inland in Iceland, especially in S. (cp. H.J., 1905, p. 70).
Common in most parts, on sandy sea-coasts.
Life-form: H.
In sand and gravel on sea-shores.
Flor. VI—VIII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. length of shoots : 50 cm ; average : 16 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: Baffin Land and Labrador to Alaska, southward to Virginia.—
Greenl.: W. 60°—79°. E. 60°—74°37\—Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I.; coasts of temperate
Eur. southward to Portugal. Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen.—Asia: Shores of northern
Siberia, Kamchatka, Korea, Honshu.
189. Minuartia rubella (Wg.) Graebner, in Aschers. & Graebner,
Synops. d. Mittel-Europ. Fl. V. 1 (1918) p. 733.
Arenaria Giesekii, Gliemann, 1824, p. 142.—A. verna L., var. rubella Br.,
and var. hirta Hn., Lindsay, 1861, p. 29.—Alsine rubella Wg., Babington,
1871, p. 297.—A. verna Bartl., Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 33.—Stefánsson,
Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 87.—M. verna (L.) Hiern, Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 98/—
O. & Gr., 1934, p. 62.
Flora Dan. tab. 1518 (Alsine verna P. rubella), tab. 1646 (y. hirta), tab. 2903
(S. proþinqua).
Icelandic: Melanóra. Danish: Vaar-Norel. English: Vernal Mountain Chickweed.
Very common in most parts of Iceland, also in the central highland.
As is the case in Greenland and in other arctic countries this plant is also very
variable in Iceland, and the three varieties (var. hirta Hartman, var. þropinqua
(Richards.) and var. rubella (Wg.), all seem to be fairly well represented there,
especially the two first named ; it is, however, in many cases impossible to decide
whether a specimen belongs to this or that variety, inasmuch as there is a series
of transitional forms. According to Ostenfeld (Medd. om Gronland 64, 1927, p. 175)
the Icelandic plants, together with the arctic forms, should be kept apart from the
Alpine and West European forms which latter may be united under the collective
name M. verna (L.) Hiern.
Life-form: Ch.
In gravelly soil, fell-field.
Flor. VI—VII ; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 8 cm ; average : 5 cm.
Geogr. area: Am. : Ellesmere Land and Labrador to Alaska.—Greenl.: Circumgreen-
landic.—Eur.: Fær.; S. ; northernmost Scandinavia and Russia, Spitsbergen, Novaya
Zemlya.—Asia : Northernmost regions; Kamchatka, etc.
190. Minuartia stricta (Sw.) Hiern, Journ. of Bot. 37, 1899, p. 320.
Alsine str. Wg., Babington, 1871, p. 298.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 34.—-
Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 88,—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 99.—O. & Gr.,
!934, p. 62.
Flora Dan. tab. 2962.