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scattered, and often they are only shrubs or low trees. In sheltered places, in ravines,
and when cultivated, specimens may attain a height of up to 8 m. Often planted
in gardens and at farmsteads. See Stefánsson, Flóruaukar, 1919, concerning the
cultivation of S. aucuparia in various places in Icel., and Thoroddsen, Bot. of Icel.,
1914, p. 342.
Life-form: Ph.
In copses, birch-woods, ravines and clefts in the lava-fields; in screes.
Flor. VI—VII; fr. mat. VIII—IX.
Max. height: 8 m; average: 2 m.
Geogr. area: N. Am. (cultivated, introduced from Europe).—Greenl.: W. (replaced
by Sorbus decora (Sarg.) C. K. Schn.).—Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I.; from northernmost
Scandinavia southward to the Mediterranean.—Asia: Western Siberia, Asia Minor.
Rosoideae.
255. Alchemilla acutidens (Buser) Lindberg fil. in Acta Soc. Fenn.
Tom. XXXVII. No. 10 (1909) p. 111.
A. Wichurae Buser, Stefánsson, Fl. Isl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 135.—A. acutidens
Bus., Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 152,—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 91.
Icon.: H. Lindberg, Die nordischen Alch. vulg.-Formen, 1909, tab. 16 and 18.
Icelandic: Silfurmaríustakkur.
Fairly frequent in the lowland in N., N.W. and S.W., and also occurring in the
central highland, e.g. at Hvítárvatn (J.Gr., 1934), Kerlingarfjöll (V. Romose, 1935).
See fig. 109.
The name A. acutidens (Buser) Lindb. must be interpreted as a collective name
(cp. also Gunnar Samuelsson in Svensk bot. tidskr. 34, 1940, p. 444 et seq.), and
Fig. 109. Alchemilla acutidens (Buser) Lindbg. fil.