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JOHS. GRONTVED
is mentioned in Eggert Olafsen’s Account, p. 820, and specimens from this locality
were collected by Thoroddsen in 1893, and by Helgi Jónsson in 1918.
Later on it has been found in some more localities: Kollaleira in Reyðarf j örður,
E. (H. Jónsson, 1894), Arnarstapahlíð, N.W. (I.Ó., 1927). Klungurbrekka, W.
(G.G., 1907). See fig. 113.
Life-form : Ph.
On grassy slopes, in low birch-scrub, among rocks.
Flor. VII; fr. mat. (VIII).
Max. height: 70 cm ; average : (?).
Geogr. area: Eur.; E.S.I.; coasts of western Europe from Bergen in Norway to
France; scarce in central and S. Eur.; southern Russia, Crimea.—Asia : A. Minor
and Caucasus, south-western Siberia, Manchuria and N.W. China.
270. Rubus saxatilis Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 494.
K. & M., 1770, p. 208.—Babington, 1871, p. 303.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881,
p. 22.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 136.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 153,—
O. & Gr., 1934, p. 90.
Flora Dan. tab. 134.
Icelandic: Hrútaberjalyng, Hrútaberjaklungur. Danish: Fruebær. English: Stone
Bramble.
Common in all parts, in the lowland as also in the central highland; often
abundant in woods and scrub, forming the bulk of the ground vegetation there.
Life-form: H.
In woods and scrub, grassy slopes and herb-slopes; on rocks, in heaths.
Flor. VI—VII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Fig. 114. Rubus saxatilis L. in Hallormsstaðaskógur.