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Flor. VII—VIII; fr. mat. VIII—IX.
Max. height: 28 cm ; average: 9 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: Unalaschka, Sitka.—Greenl.: W. 60°—61°20' and 69°30'.
E. 60°—66°5'.—Eur.: Northern Scandinavia (from 63° to 71°10'). Finland: Kola
Penins.-—Asia: Northern parts (? Central Asia).
331. Gentiana campestris Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 231, subsp.
islandica Murbeck, in Acta Hort. Berg., Bd. 2, No. 3 (1892)
p. 10.
G. campeslris, K. & M., 1770, p. 205.—G. camp. L., Babington, 1871, p. 318.
—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 73.—G. campestris *islandica Murb., Stefáns-
son, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 181.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 205,—O. & Gr.,
1934, p. 111.
Icon.: Stefánsson, Fl. Isl., ed. 2, fig. 152.
Icelandic: Maríuvöndur. Danish: Bredbægret Ensian. English: Field Gentian.
Common in all parts in the lowlands, but seems to be rare in the central high-
land whence only very few records are known: Hvitárvatn (J.Gr., 1934).
The subsp. islandica Murb. is usually a low plant 4—10 cm high; stem simple
or branched, usually few (3) internodes; rosette leaves + ovate, and the lower
and middle stem-leaves spathulate; upper stem-leaves ovate-lanceolate + acute.—
Flowers often white (f. albiflora Wettstein) or rosy (f. roseo-discolor Beauv.).
f. Hartmanniana Baenitz, low (3—7 cm), with whitish corolla and the vegetative
parts light-green ; internodes short. Occurs rather frequently in the hills.
Life-form: H. (Th.).
Grassy hill-slopes, herb slopes, meadows, heaths, dry grassland, usually in the
lower regions.
Flor. VII—VIII (IX) ; fr. mat. (VIII—IX).
Max. height: 23 cm; average: 9 cm.
Geogr. area: (coll. species) Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I.; Scand., Finland; central Eur.,
Pyrenees, Alps, Appenines.
332. Gentiana detonsa Rottb., in Kiobenhavnske Selsk. Skrifter, X
(1766—67) p. 435, tab. I, fig. 3.
G. ciliata and G. bavarica, K. & M., 1770, p. 205.—G. detonsa Fr., Ba-
bington, 1871, p. 318.—G. serrata Gunn., Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 72.—
Stcfánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 183.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 207,—G.
detonsa Rottb., O. & Gr. 1934, p. 112.
Flora Dan. tab. 317.
Icelandic : Engjavöndur. Smaller Fringed Gentian.
Common in N. and S.W.; recorded from several places in N.W. and E. Ac-
cording to Stefánsson, 1924, loc. cit., it has also been found once in S., but no
locality is given for this record.
Life-form: H. (Th.).
On damp sandy soil, in sea-side meadows.
Flor. VII—VIII; fr. mat. (VIII).
Max. height: 20 cm; average: 11 cm.
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