The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Page 308

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JOHS. GRONTVED
Life-form: H.
On cultivated soil, around farms, in meadows, gardens.
Flor. VI—VII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 60 cm ; average : 35 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: Cultivated, and escaped from cultivation.—Greenl.: W. Ivigtut
and Frederiksdal (introduced).—Eur. : Fær.; E.S.I.; northern and central Europe,
Fig. 131. Carum Carvi L.
southward to the Pyrenees and Serbia; Caucasus.—Asia : Siberia, Persia, Himalaya.—-
Africa : Morocco, Tunis.—Austr.: New Zealand (introduced).
Caucalis daucoides Linn.
A specimen in flower found at the drug store in Seyðisfjörður, E. Accidentally in-
troduced.
Daucus Carota Linn.
Bennet, 1890, p. 80.
This species is entered in Bennet’s list, loc. cit., on the authority of the Rev.
Dr. Walker (1889), who is said to have found it at Eskifjörður, E. No doubt the
specimen in question has been accidentally introduced, or is an escape from
cultivation.
309. Hydrocotyle vulgaris Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 234.
K. & M., 1770, p. 206.—Babington, 1871, p. 309.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881,
p. 60.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 153.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 173.—
O. & Gr., 1934, p. 102.
Flora Dan. tab. 90.