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JOHS. GRONTVED
Flor. V—VII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 15 cm; average: 5 cm.
Geogr. area: (coll. species) N. Am. : Arctic parts.—Greenl. : W. 60°—83°. E. 60°
... 79 '3G'.—Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I.; northern Scandinavia, Finland and Russia, Novaya
Zemlya, Spitsbergen, central Eur.-—Asia: Arctic Siberia eastward to the Chukchee
Peninsula.
245. Saxifraga cernua Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 403.
S. bulbifera and S. cernua, K. & M., 1770, p. 207.—Hooker, in Mackenzie,
1811, p. 422.—S. cernua L., Babington, 1871, p. 308.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl.,
1881, p. 55.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 124.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924,
p. 139,—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 86.
Flora Dan. tab. 390.
Icelandic: Laukasteinbrjótur. Danish: Nikkende Stenbræk. English: Drooping
Saxifrage.
Rather common in N. and E.; otherwise rare. Found in some places in the
central highland around Hofsjökull; see fig. 106.
Life-form: H.
On loose, damp soil, in moist mossy depressions on mountain-slopes.
Flor. VI—VIII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 20 cm; average: 12 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: Newfoundland and Ellesmere Land to Alaska, southward to
New Mexico.—Greenl.: W. 60°—81°30'. E. 60°—79°30'.—Eur.: S.; northern Nor-
way southward to Kristiansand Stift; Lapland, Russia, Spitsbergen, Novaya Zemlya,
Fr. Josef Land. Alps and Karpathians,—Asia: Northern and arctic Siberia. Kam-
chatka, Altai, Himalaya.
Fig. 106. Saxifraga cernua L.