The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Page 318

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JOHS. GRONTVED
The flowering and fruiting specimens of Icelandic Oxycoccus kept in H.H. all
seem to belong to O. microcarþus Turcz. & Rupr. characterized by glabrous
peduncles, smaller flowers and fruits, and also smaller leaves than in the typical
O. quadripetalus.—The Icelandic specimens have berries measuring about 5 mm
in diameter (cp. I.Ó., loc. cit.). In N. it has been found in a good many localities
around Eyjafjörður and Mývatn; in N.W. and S. it has not yet been found. In
fig. 139 all finds and records of Oxycoccus are inserted, though some of the records
may possibly refer to O. quadriþetalus. Most likely it has been overlooked in many
places. From Skarðsheiði, W., it is recorded by Thoroddscn, but no specimens are
>’n evidence from this part of Iceland.
Fig. 139. Oxycoccus microcarþus Turcz.
Lifc-form : Ch.
In swamps and moors, cspecially on Sþhagnum.
Flor. VII; fr. mat. VIII.
Max. lcngth of stems: 30 cm.
Geogr. area: Am. : Labrador, Alaska (Yukon, Sitcha).—Greenl. : (?).—Eur.: North-
ernmost Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula, N. Russia; Alps.—Asia: From the
lower Obi, Yenisei and Kolyma rivers southward to S. Siberia, Amur. Prov. Kam-
chatka and Sakhalin.
322. Vaccinium Myrtillus Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 349.
K. & M., 1770, p. 206.—Babington, 1871, p. 317,—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881,
p. 62.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 161.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 181.—
O. & Gr., 1934, p. 107.
Flora Dan. tab. 974.
Icclandic: Aðalbláberjalyng. Danish : Blaabær. English : Bilbcrry, Bluebcrry, Whortle-
bcrry.