The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Blaðsíða 239

THE PTERIDOPHYTA AND SPERMATOPHYTA OF ICELAND
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Life-form: H and HH (Hydrophyte).
In smaller lakes, ditches, ponds and brooks, in moist, mossy depressions, in moors,
at springs.
Flor. VI—VII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. length of shoots: 20 cm; average: 8 cm.
Geogr. area: Am., Labrador to Alaska, southward to Quebec and Alberta.—Greenl.:
W. 60°—82°30'. E. 60°—79°30'.—Eur.: Northern Scandinavia, Finland and Russia,
Spitsbergen, Novaya Zemlya.—Asia: Northern coasts, southward to the northern
Kuriles.
Ranunculus lapponicus Linn.
K. & M., 1770, p. 208.—Hooker, 1811, vol. II, p. 327.—Babington, 1871, p. 292.
This species was recorded by K. & M., loc. cit., and entered with a locality
in Zoega’s list (1772, p. 8) ; no specimens from Icel. are in evidence, and it would
be safe to exclude it from the flora.
Ranunculus montanus (Willd.?).
Thienemann & Giinther, 1827, p. 287.—Babington, 1871, p. 292.
Recorded by Th. & G., loc. cit., as found at Eyðar on Lagarfljót, E.—It is a
central European plant and not likely to be found in Iceland.
Ranunculus nivalis Linn.
Mohr, 1786, p. 194.—Babington, 1871, p. 292.
According to Babington, loc. cit., this species should be recorded by K. & M.
but it is not entered in their list. Mohr states that it grows by the roadside from
Trékyllisheiði to Reykjarfjörður, N.W. Henderson, according to Babington, quotes
it from Svend Paulsen’s manuscript as found near Kvisker at Öræfajökull, S.
There are, however, no specimens in evidence of these finds, and this species
should be excluded from the Icelandic Flora.
Ranunculus polyanthemus Linn.
Gliemann, 1824, p. 144.—Thienemann & Giinther, 1827, p. 287.—Babington, 1871,
p. 292.
First recorded by Gliemann, loc. cit., from Eiðar on Lagarfljót, E., and after-
wards entered in some of the older lists. There is no reason to believe that this
species has been found in Iceland.
211. Ranunculus pygmaeus Wg., Fl. lapp. (1812) p. 157.
Gliemann, 1824, p. 144 (?)/—Baring-Gould, 1863, p. 424.—Carroll, 1867,
p. 107.—Babington, 1871, p. 292.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 51.—Ste-
fánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 96.—Ibid., ed. 2, p. 108.—O. & Gr., 1934,
p. 67.
Flora Dan. tab. 144.
Icelandic : Dvergsóley. Danish : Dverg-Smorblomst, Dverg-Ranunkel. English : Pigmy
Buttercup.
In N. and N.W. rather frequent, otherwise rather scattered; in the country
around Reyðarfjörður, E., frequent in the hills (I.Ó., 1929a, p. 44), common in
Landmannaafrjettur, S. (S.S., 1933a, p. 38). See fig. 92.‘
According to Bisiker (1902, p. 226) also found in Þjófadalur, between Hofsjökull
and Langjökull. This locality is not entered upon the sketch map fig. 92.