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JOHS. GRONTVED
Geogr. area: Am.: Labrador to Alaska, and southward to the mts. of Quebec and
New Hampshire. Rocky mts.—Greenl.: W. 60°—71°42'. E. 60°—73°10'.—Eur.:
Fær.; E.S. (in the mts.) ; Scandinavian mts., Kola Penins. Alps, Pyrenees, mts. of
Spain and Italy, Ural, Caucasus.—Asia: Altai, Tibet, Mongolia, Himalaya, Kam-
chatka, Komandorskie Isl., Chukchee Penins.
Papilionaceae.
273. Anthyllis Vulneraria Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 719.
K. & M., 1770, p. 209.—Babington, 1871, p. 301—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881,
p. 20.—Stefánsson, Fl. Isl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 140.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 158.—
O. & Gr., 1934, p. 93.
Flora Dan. tab. 988.
Icelandic: Gullkollur. Danish: Gul Rundbælg. English: Lady’s Fingers, Kidney-
vetch.
Fairly common in the country south of Hvalfjörður in S.W., otherwise only
found in three places in E., and on the Snæfellsnes peninsula, see fig. 116. The
locality near Mývatn, in O. & Gr., 1934, p. 93, is an error, it should be Vogsósar
at Selvogur, S.
Life-form: H.
In sandy and gravelly places, in Grimmia-heaths, especially near the sea.
Flor. VI—VII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 30 cm; average: 12 cm.
Geogr. area: Am. : Pennsylvania, Ontario (adventive from Eur.).—Eur.: E.S.I.;
from 70° N. lat. in Scandinavia throughout most Eur.; eastward to Caucasus.—
Asia: Western Asia.—N. Afr. and Abyssinia.
Fig. 116. Anthyllis Vulneraria L.