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places: Kálfafellsstaðir and Borgarhöfn (D 8); in H.H. there are specimens from
Þjórsárholt, D 10 (leg. Thorsteinsson, 1914). See fig. 144. A record from Stykkis-
hólmur in Breiðifjörður, W. (cp. Babington, loc. cit.), may be regarded as some-
what dubious.
Life-form: H. (G: Stem-tuber Geophyte).
In scrubs and woods, in moist mossy places, in moors.
Flor. VI—VIII; fr. mat. (VIII).
Max. height: 15 cm; average : 7 cm.
Geogr. area: (including subsp. arctica (Fisch.)). Am.: Aleutian Isl., Alaska to
Yukon and Oregon (subsp. arctica).—Eur.: E.S.; northern temperate parts, south-
ward to France; Alps, Ural.—Asia: Siberia from 67° N. lat. southward to N.
Manchuria, Kamchatka, Japan (in eastern Asia subsp. arctica).
Plumbaginaceae.
328. Armeria vulgaris Willd., Enumer. Hort. Berol. I (1806) p. 333.
Statice Armeria, K. & M., 1770, p. 206.—A. maritima Willd., Babington,
1871, p. 323.—A. maritima Willd. + var. sibirica, Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881,
p. 82.—A. elongata Boiss., Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 165.—A. vulgaris
Willd., Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 185,—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 110.
Flor. Dan. tab. 2584 and tab. 2769.
Icelandic : Geldingahnappur. Danish : Almindelig Faareleger, Engelskgræs. English :
Cushion-pink, Sea Thrift.
Common in all parts, from the sea-shore to the hill-tops in the central highland.
In the Icelandic specimens the leaves may sometimes be nearly glabrous, but
usually they are more or less hairy, while the scapes are nearly always covered with
soft hairs. The calyx-tube is always more or less densely hairy, especially on the
veins. As to the various forms of this species, cp. Hultén, Fl. of Kamtchatka, IV,
p. 60. 1930.
Life-form : H. (Ch.).
On gravelly and sandy soil; in fell-field and heaths; on rocky flats, mountain-slopes,
dry moors, screes; on new morainic soil, etc.
Flor. VI—VII; fr. mat. ?.
Max. height: 30 cm ; average : 9 cm.
Geogr. area: (Coll. species) : Am. : (A. labradorica) Labrador and Ellesmere Land
to Alaska, southward down the coast to California.—S. Am. : Patagonia, Tierra del
Fuego.—Greenl. : (partly A. labradorica). W. 60°—78°. E. 65°31' to about 82°.—
Eur. : Fær.; E.S.I.; Scandinavia, Finland, Estonia. (Arctic coasts of Eur.: A. labra-
dorica).—Asia: (A. labradorica). Along the north coast to the Chukchee Penins.1
Gentianaceae.
Chlora þerfoliata L.
According to Bennet, 1890, p. 80, recorded by Rev. Dr. Walker, 1899. It should
be excluded from the Icelandic Flora.
Erythraea Centaurium Linn.
Bennet, 1890, p. 80.
1 As to the distribution of the various forms of this species, see Johs. Iversen in
D. Kgl. Danske Vidensk. Selsk., Biol. Medd. XV, 8. Kbhvn. 1940.
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