The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Blaðsíða 310

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JOHS. GRONTVED
Life-form: H.
Near the sea-coast. On sandy beaches, coast-cliffs, rock-ledges, in grassy places, etc.
Flor. VI—VII; fr. mat. VIII.
Max. height: 100 cm ; average : 30 cm.
Geogr. area: Am. : Labrador southward to New York; Quebec region; Alaska from
52°—67° N. lat.—Greenl.: W. 60°—65°44'.—E. 60°—60°35'.—Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I.;
northwestern Eur. southward to Denmark.—Asia: The Chukchee Peninsula, south-
ward to Honshu; Kamchatka.
Peucedanum Ostruthium (L.) Koch.
Imþeratoria Ostruthium, K. & M., 1770, p. 206.—P. Ostruthium Koch, Lindsay,
1861, p. 30.—Babington, 1871, p. 310.—Gronlund, 1885, p. 214.—Bennet, 1886,
p. 69.
First recorded from Iceland by König & Miiller, loc. cit., and afterwards by all
the older authors. Vahl, however, doubts it being a native of Iceland. Probably it is
Archangelica officinalis that has been mistaken for this plant—or even Ligusticum
scoticum?
Cornaceae.
311. Cornus suecica Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 118.
Gliemann, 1824, p. 138.—Babington, 1871, p. 310.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881,
p. 58.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 150.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 169.
O. & Gr., 1934, p. 100.
Flora Dan. tab. 5.
Icelandic: Skollaber. Danish : Honsebær. English : Dwarf Cornel.
The distribution in Iceland of this species is rather remarkable. If a line be
drawn from the south-western part of Snæfellsnes through the islct Hrísey in Eyja-
fjörður, it will (see fig. 134) be seen that all the localities recorded are situated
to the north of this line. It is restricted to the N.W.-peninsula, the Snæfellsnæs
peninsula and is further found in some few localities on both sides of Eyja-
fjörður.
Life-form: H.
In scrub, grassy slopes, Calluna
heath.
Flor. VII—VIII; fr. mat. (?).
Max. height: 19 cm ; average :
11 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: Newfound-
land, Labrador, Alaska.—Greenl. :
W. 60°—68°45'. E. 60°—61°37'.
-—Eur.: Fær.; E.S.; Scandinavia
from North Cape southward to
northern Germany and Holland ;
eastward to St. Petersburg, Ar-
changelsk, North-Vologda.—Asia :
Eastern coast of Manschuria,
Amur river and N. Japan.
Fig. 134. Cornus suecica L.