The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Side 336
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JOHS. GRONTVED
Life-form: Ch.
On mountain-slopes, on sandy and gravelly soil, fell-field, in screes, in Salix and
Betula scrub, heaths, near hot springs, etc.
Flor. VII—VIII; fr. mat. (VIII—IX).
Max. height: 10 cm; average: 6 cm (flowering shoots).
Geogr. area: (coll. species) Am.: (naturalized from Europe) Nova Scotia to New
Jersey and Pennsylvania.—Greenl.: W. 60°—66056,. E. 60°—68°20'.—Eur.: Fær.;
E.S.I.; throughout temperate Europe.—Asia: Siberia from 70° N. lat. to Tibet and
Himalaya.
Fig. 150. Thymus Serþyllum L. from Hafursey, S. Iceland. 3:4.
Scrophulanaceae.
348. Bartsia alpina Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 602.
K. & M., 1770, p. 208.—Babington, 1871, p. 320.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl„ 1881,
p. 66.—Bartschia alpina L„ Stefánsson, Fl. fsl„ ed. 1, 1901, p. 168.—Ibid„
ed. 2, 1924, p. 189,—O. & Gr„ 1934, p. 121.
Flora Dan. tab. 43.
Icelandic: Lokasjóðsbróðir, Smjörgras, Hanatoppur, Óeirðargras. Danish: Fjæld
Hanetop. English: Alpine Bartsia, Alpine Eye-bright, Cow-wheat.
Common in all parts, in the lowland as well as the central highland.
Life-form: H.
In herb-slopes, copses, heaths, meadows, in Grimmia-heaths, on damp soil in
the hills.
Flor. VI—VIII; fr. mat. VIII.
Max. height: 35 cm ; average : 13 cm.
Geogr. area : Am.: N.E. Am.; Labrador.—Greenl.: 60°—72°4'. E. 60°—68°44'.—
Eur. : Fær.; E.S.; Scandinavia; N. Russia; central and southern Eur. mts.—Asiat
Arctic parts; Altai.