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Intermediate is var. filicaulis (Buser), with leaves, pedicels and hypocalyx more
or less sparingly pilose. Cp. also H. Lindberg: Die nordischen Alchemilla vulgaris-
Formen, 1909, p. 91 et seq.
Common in all parts of the lowland as well as the central highland.
Life-form: H.
On grassy ground, grassy slopes and herb-slopes, Calluna heaths, fell-field.
Max. height: 45 cm ; average : 20 cm.
Flor. VI—VII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Geogr. area: (Coll. species) E. Am. between 51° and 52° N. lat.—Greenl.: W.
60°—66°55'. E. 60°—69°18'.—Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I.; Scandinavia, Denmark, Finland,
Curonia, Archang.
Alchemilla montana.
Gliemann, 1824, p. 138.—Babington, 1871, p. 302.
Recorded by Gliemann on the authority of Morch. Babington, loc. cit., presumes
it is a variety (species) of the A. vulgaris group.
260. Comarum palustre Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 718.
K. & M., 1770, p. 208.—Potentilla Comarum Nesl., Babington, 1871, p.
303.—C. palustre L., Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 23.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl.,
ed. 1, 1901, p. 133.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 149.—P. palustris (L.) Scop.,
O. & Gr., 1934, p. 88.
Flora Dan. tab. 636.
Icelandic: Engjarós, Kóngshattur, Þrifablaðka. Danish: Kragefod. English: Marsh
Cinque-foil.
Fairly common in most parts of the lowland; also rather frequent in the central
highland, for instance in several places in the country around Hvítárvatn. Besides
the typical form of this species the f. glandulosum J. Gunnarsson, in Bot. Notiser,
1914, p. 217 et seq., as well as f. subsericeum W. Becker,1 are also represented from
various localities in Iceland.
1. f. glandulosum Gunn., with long, red or brownish glandular hairs on the stems,
otherwise nearly glabrous.
2. f. subsericeum Becker, stems with silky-woollen or felty hairs, glandular hairs
absent or only occurring in the floral parts.
Life-form: H. and HH. (Helophyte).
In moist moors, in shallow waters and pools; near hot springs.
Flor. VII—VIII; fr. mat. VIII.
Max. height: 43 cm; average: 19 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: Labrador to Alaska, and southward to Pennsylvania and Cali-
fornia.—Greenl.: W. 60°—67°50'. E. 65°—66°10'.—Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I.; Novaya
Zemlya; throughout Eur.—Asia: Northernmost Siberia to Transcaucasia and
Tránscaspia; Mongolia and Manchuria.
1 Deutsche Botan. Monatsschrift XV. Jahrg. 1879, Heft 3, p. 85.
Cp. also J. G. Gunnarsson in Bot. Notiser 1914, p. 221.