The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Síða 312

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JOHS. GRONTVED
Pyrolaceae.
Pyrola media Sw.
This species is recorded for Iceland by some of the older authors (Mohr, 1786,
p. 181) cp. Babington, 1871, p. 317. Bisiker, 1902, p. 228, records it from Hveravellir
and Sandá in Central Icel. It is evidently a mistake for P. rotundifolia, or perhaps
for P. minor. No specimens of P. media are in evidence, and it should be excluded
from the Icelandic flora.
313. Pyrola minor Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 396.
Hooker, in Mackenzie, 1811, p. 422.—Babington, 1871, p. 317.—Gronlund,
Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 41.—Stefánsson, Fl. Isl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 154,—Ibid., ed. 2,
1924, p. 175,—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 104.
Flora Dan. tab. 55.
Icelandic : Klukkublóm. Danish : Liden Sommerkonval. English : Small Wintergreen.
Common in all parts of the lowland ; also seems to be frequent in the central
highland: Hveravellir, Múlaver, Arnarfell hið mikla (J.Gr., 1934). Hvannalindir
(S.S., 1933). Laugafell north of Vatnajökull (J.Gr., 1935).
Life-form: H.
On heaths, herb-slopes, rock-ledges; in ravines.
Flor. VII—VIII; fr. mat. VIII.
Max. height: 20 cm ; avcrage : 11 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: Labrador, Newfoundland and Melville Peninsula to Alaska;
southward to California, Minnesota etc.—Grecnl.: W. 60°—69°45'. E. 60°—68°33'.
—Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I.; from northcrnmost Scandinavia southward to Spain, Balkan,
Crimea, Caucasus. Novaya Zemlya.—Asia: Siberia from about 71° N. lat., south-
ward to Sayansk Mts. Kamchatka southward to Sakhalin, Hokkaido, Honshu.
314. Pyrola rotundifolia Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 396.
K. & M., 1770, p. 207.—P. media and P. rotundifolia, Babington, 1871,
p. 317.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 42.—P. rot. L., Bennet, 1886, p. 69.—
Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 155.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 175.—O. & Gr.,
1934, p. 104.
Flora Dan. tab. 1816.
Icclandic : Bjöllulilja. Danish ; Aabcnblomstret Sommcrkonval. English : Round-leavcd
Wintergreen.
Found in many places in N., in the country at the hcad of Eyjafjörður, and in
the tracts from Skjálfandi to somewhat south of Mývatn. Otherwise it is recorded
from Vopnafjörður, E., and from Súgandafjörður, N.W.; the last-named locality
being somewhat dubious. See fig. 136.
It seems to be thc typical European form in Iceland.—It has been confoundcd
with P. media by some of the earlier writers on the Icelandic Flora (cp. Bennet,
1886, p. 69), but the latter species has not been found in Iceland.
Life-form: H.
In birch-copses, and on heathland.
Flor. VII; fr. mat. (VIII).
Max. height: 20 cm ; average: 12 cm.