The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Page 229

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Life-form. Ch.
In grassy and gravelly places, fell-field, etc.
Flor. VI—VII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 10 cm ; average : 5 cm.
Geogr. area: Am. : From Labrador to Alaska, southward in the mts.—-Greenl.: W.
60°—69°15'. E. 60°—68°52'.—Eur.: S.; northern Scandinavia and Russia, central
Eur. mts. to Spain and Italy.—Asia: Along the north coast, to the south in the
mts. to Himalaya; China, Korea, Japan.—N. Africa.
196. Sagina subulata Presl, Fl. Sicula I (1826) p. 158.
Sþergula subulata, Gliemann, 1824, p. 143.—Vahl, 1840, p. 371.—Sagina
subulata Wimm., Babington, 1871, p. 297.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901,
p. 89.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 100.—S. subulata (Sw.) Torr. & Gray, O. & Gr.,
1934, p. 63.
Flora Dan. tab. 858.
Icelandic: Broddkrækill. Danish : Syl-Firling. English : Heath-Pearlwort.
This species was first recorded by Gliemann, loc. cit., on the authority of Mörch,
and Vahl considered it a native of Iceland. In 1897 Helgi Jónsson collected it on
Hrappsey and at Staðarfell, W.; later it has also been found in some places in N.W.
and E.; see fig. 86.
Life-form : H.
In grassy moors, on moist sandy and gravelly soil, on mossy ground.
Flor. VI—VII ; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 6 cm; average: 4 cm.
Geogr. area: Eur. : Fær.; E.S.I.; from Scandinavia southward to the Mediter-
ranean Sea.
Fig. 86. Sagina subulata Presl.
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