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Fig. 96. Cardamine hirsuta L.
223. Cardamine pratensis Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 656.
K. & M., 1770, p. 209.—Babington, 1871, p. 294.-—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881,
p. 47.—Stefánsson, Fl. tsl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 108.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 121.—
O. & Gr., 1934, p. 74.
Flora Dan. tab. 1039.
Icelandic: Hrafnaklukka. Danish : Engkarse. English: Cuckoo-flower, Meadow Cress.
Very variable with respect to stature, and the size and colour of the flowers,
as well as the form of the leaves. At Hnappavellir, S., H. Jónsson (1905, p. 72)
observed a specimen measuring 50 cm in height, growing in a crevice.
Common in all parts, even in the central plateau.
Life-form: H.
In bogs and marshes, along rivulets, in grass-fields, in fell-fields, in moist home-
fields, near hot springs.
Flor. V—VII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 42 cm; average: 17 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: Northern Am., arctic and temperate parts.—Greenl.: W. 60°
—76°30'.—Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I.; arctic and temperate parts of Eur., Novaya
Zemlya, Spitsbergen.—Asia: Arctic and temperate parts, eastward to Kamchatka.—
Afr.: Abyssinia.
224. Cardaminopsis hispida (Mygind) Hayek, in Hegi 111. Fl. von
Mitteleur. IV, 1, p. 419. (Arabis petraea (L.) Lam., Encycl. I
(1783) p. 221.
Cardamine þetraea, K. & M., 1770, p. 209.—C. faeroeensis & C. þetraea,
Gliemann, 1824, p. 145.—A. þetraea L., Babington, 1871, p. 293.—Gron-