The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Blaðsíða 234
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JOHS. GRONTVED
Icelandic: Munkahetta. Danish: Trævlekrone. English: Ragged Robin, Cuckoo
Flower.
This species is rare in Iceland, only found in the southernmost parts. The eastern-
most locality here is Sandfell, south of Vatnajökull (D. 8), the westernmost Vífils-
staðir (D. 1). See fig. 89.
Life-form: H.
On meadow land and moors, or rocks.
Flor. VII—VIII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 60 cm; average: 30 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: N. Am. (adventive).—Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I.; throughout most of
Europe, from c. 69° southward to Spain and Italy. Caucasus.—Asia: Siberia.
203. Sile'ne acaulis Linn., Sp. pl. ed. 2 (1762) p. 603.
Cububalus acaulis, K. & M., 1770, p. 207.—S. acaulis L., Babington, 1871,
p. 296.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 32.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901,
p. 91.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 102.—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 58.
Flora Dan. tab. 21.
Icelandic: Lambagras, Holtarót (the tap-root). Danish: Stilklos Limurt. English:
Cushion Pink.
Common in all parts, in the lowland as well as the central highland.
The white-flowered form: f. albijlora is rather frequent.
Life-form: Ch.
In fell-field, heather moors, gravelly flats, screes; often frequent even in windblown
and exposed localities.
Flor. V—VII; fr. mat. VI—VIII.
Max. height: 8 cm ; average: 3 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: Labrador and Newfoundland, Ellesmere Land to Alaska; south-
ward to Arizona and New Mexico.—Greenl.: W. 60°—83°. E. 60u—79°30'.—
Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I.; arctic and subarctic parts of Eur., central Eur. mts. Spitsbergen,
Jan Mayen, Novaya Zemlya.—Asia: Northeastern Siberia. Kamchatka.
Silene latifolia (Mill.) Rendle et Britton, List. Brit. Seed-Plants (1907) p. 5.
Cucubalus Behen, K. & M., 1770, p. 207.—Hjaltalin, 1830, p. 194.—S. inflata
Sm., Lindsay, 1861, p. 28.-—Stefánsson, Fl. Isl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 90.—Ibid., ed. 2,
1924, p. 102.—S. vulgaris (Moench) Garcke, O. & Gr., 1934, p. 58.
This plant is recorded by several of the older authors, and even in recent times
it is mentioned in the lists as accidentally introduced in a few places around farm-
steads. The older records must, however, in most cases evidently be referred to
S. maritima.
204. Silene maritima With., in Bot. Arr. Brit. Pl. ed. III, 2 (1796)
p. 414. (Silene uniflora Roth, in Usteri Ann. Bot. X (1794)
p. 46).
[?] Cucubalus Behen, K. & M., 1770, p. 207.—S. maritima With., Babing-
ton, 1871, p. 296.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 31.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl.,
ed. 1, 1901, p. 91.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 102.--O. & Gr., 1934, p. 58.
Flora Dan. tab. 857.