The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Page 328
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JOHS. GRONTVED
Flor. VI—VII; fr. mat. (VIII).
Max. height: 34 cm; average: 20 cm.
Geogr. area: Am. : From Labrador and Newfoundland to Alaska southward to
Pennsylvania, Colorado and California.—Greenl. : W. 60°—69°.—Eur.: Fær.;
E.S.I.; from northemmost Scandinavia southward throughout Eur.—-Asia: Siberia
from about 69° N., southward to Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, N. Mongolia, Korea,
Honshu.
Nymþhoides peltata (Gmel.) Kuntze.
Villarsia nymphaeoides, Benguerel, 1861, p. 449.—Babington, 1871, p. 319.
Recorded by Benguerel, loc. cit., without locality; it is evidently a mistake.
Cp. Babington, loc. cit.
Boraginaceae.
Asperugo þrocumbens Linn.
Found 1929 at Þingeyrar within Húnafjörður, N. The specimen, with juvenile
fruits, is kept in H.H., but there is no information concerning the locality where it
was found. It may be added that this species is found in W. Greenland as far north
as Christianshaab (68°50' N. lat.), where it has been growing abundantly for many
years, on a stone wall.
Echium vulgare Linn.
Olafsen & Povelsen, 1772, p. 430.—Gliemann, 1824, p. 139.—Babington, 1871,
p. 319.
This species is recorded by some of the older authors of the Icelandic Flora.
No specimens are, however, in evidence, and it may be safe to exclude it from
the Icelandic Flora.