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JOHS. GRONTVED
of the Vestfirðir peninsula; also recorded
from two localities in S. (Fljóthslíð). See
fig. 147.
Life-form: Th.
In dry soil, sunny places.
Flor. VII—VIII; fr. mat. VIII.
Max. height: 40 cm ; average : 23 cm.
Geogr. area : Am.: (naturalized from Eur.)
New York and Delaware.—Eur.: Fær.;
E.S.I. ; Shetlands; Atlantic Eur.; Scandi-
navia and southward to Spain. Ukraine,
Caucasus.—Africa : Atlas, Azores.
Labiatae.
343. Ajuga pyramidalis Linn., Sp.
pl. ed. I (1753) p. 561.
Strömfelt, 1884, p. 107.—Ingólfur
Davíðsson (in lit., November 1940).
—Áskell Löve, 1941, p. 235.
Flora Dan. tab. 185.
Icelandic: Lyngbúi. Danish: Pyramide-
Læbelos. English: Pyramidal Bugle.
This species was first recorded from the country west of Hrútafjörður, N.W.
Icel., by Strömfelt, loc. cit., but it was not entered in later papers on the Icelandic
Flora, as no specimens were in evidence. In the summer of 1940 it was, however,
found in E. Icel. by Ingólfur Davíðsson. It was growing in two different places near
Njarðvik (Kerlingarmóar and Grjótfjall) and further it was found by the school-
master, Þóroddur Guðmundsson, near Loðmundarfjörður. All three localities are
situated in D. 7. See fig. 148.
Life-form: H.
In birch-copses, amongst Calluna.
Geogr. area: Eur.: E.S.I.; from northemmost Scandinavia and central Finland
southward to the Mediterranean. Alps, Caucasus.
Galeoþsis Ladanum Linn.
K. & M., 1770, p. 208.—Babington, 1871, p. 322.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881,
p. 70.
This species was recorded by König & Miiller, loc. cit., and by most of the older
authors, but no specimens are in evidence; it is altogether an unlikely plant to be
found growing in Iceland, and should be excluded from the Icelandic Flora.
Galeopsis speciosa Mill.
Found once at Reykjavík (coll. Thorsteinsson, 1914). Accidentally introduced.
344. Galeopsis Tetrahit Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 579.
K. & M., 1770, p. 208,—Babington, 1871, p. 322.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881,
p. 70.—Stefánsson, Fl. Isl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 179.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 204.—
O. & Gr., 1934, p. 117.
Flora Dan. tab. 1271.