The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Blaðsíða 331
THE PTERIDOPHYTA AND SPERMATOPHYTA OF ICELAND
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Icelandic: Sandmunablóm. Danish: Rank Forglemmigej. English: Blue Scorpion-
grass.
This species has a very remarkable distribution in Iceland, being widely distributed
in the Vestfirðir peninsula and in the Eyjafjörður valley, south of Akureyri, as also
in the parts on the south side of Breiðifjörður. Otherwise it is found in two places
within Húnafjörður. It is also recorded from some few places in S. and S.W.,
see fig. 146.
Life-form: Th.
On dry sandy and gravelly soil.
Flor. VI—VII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 40 cm; average : 10 cm.
Geogr. area: Am. : (adventive) Ontario to Mass. and Ohio.—Eur. : Scandinavia
from about 64° N. southward throughout Eur., northern Russia, Ural, Caucasus.—
Asia: Siberia, Altai, Syria, Afghanistan.—Afr.: Atlas.
341. Myosotis scorpioides L. em Hill, Veget. Syst., Vol. VII (1764)
p. 55.
M. scorpioides, K. & M., 1770, p. 205.—M. palustris (With.), Baring-Gould,
1863, p. 431.—Babington, 1871, p. 319.—M. palustris (L.) Roth, Steindórsson,
1940, p. 178.
Flora Dan. tab. 1988.
Icelandic: Engja gleym-mjer-ey. Danish : Eng-Forglemmigej. English : Marsh Scor-
pion-grass.
First recorded by K. & M., without locality; Babington, loc. cit., gives two
localities: Hafnarfjörður, S.W., and Grænafell, [?], on the authority of Solander.
Baring-Gould records it, loc. cit., from Hof in Vatnsdalur, N.—Recently Steindórs-
son (1940, p. 178) has recorded it from Laugaból and Arngerðareyri, N.W., as
cultivated in gardens. It was brought here from Arngerðareyrarháls where it was
growing in the hills. According to Steindórsson, it would seem that it may be
regarded as a native of Iceland. It is found in some few places in the Færoes.
Life-form: H.
In moist soil, ditches, etc.
Flor. VII ; fr. mat. ?.
Geogr. area: Am. : (introduced from Eur.) Newfoundland to New York and Penn-
sylvania.—Eur. : Fær.; E.S.I. ; throughout Europe.—Asia: Northern and western
parts.—N. Africa, Madeira.
342. Myosotis versicolor (Pers.) Smith, Engl. Botany, pl. 480. 1813.
Gliemann, 1824, p. 139.—M. versicolor Rchb., Babington, 1871, p. 319.—
M. versicolor Pers., Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 69.—M. versicolor (Pers.)
Sm., Stefánsson, Fl. tsl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 177.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 200.—
O. & Gr., 1934, p. 115.
Flora Dan. tab. 583 (righthand figure) and tab. 2285b.
Icelandic : Kisugras. Danish: Forskelligfarvet Forglemmigej. English : Colour-chang-
ing Forget-me-not.
Found in some places in the vicinity of Reykjavík and in the southern parts