The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Blaðsíða 344

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JOHS. GRONTVED
Rh. minor Ehrh., GrBnlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 65.—Alectoroloþhus minor Ehrh.,
Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 167.—Rh. Crista-galli L., Ibid., ed. 2,
1924, p. 188.—Rh. minor Ehrh., O. & Gr., 1934, p. 120.
Flora Dan. tab. 2656.
Icelandic: Lokasjóður, Peningagras. Danish: Liden Skjaller. English: Common
Corn-Rattle.
Frequent in most parts of the lowland; only once recorded from the interior:
Gránunes (J.Gr., 1934).
Life-form: Th.
In dry uncultivated grass-land, home-fields, grassy slopes, heaths and dry moors.
Flor. VII—VIII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 45 cm; average: 12 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: Newfoundland and Labrador to Alaska and Oregon, southward
to Quebec and New York. In the Rocky Mountains to New Mexico.—Eur. : Fær.;
E.S.I.; throughout Eur., except in the southernmost parts.
360. Veronica alpina Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 11.
K. & M., 1770, p. 204.—Babington, 1871, p. 321.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881,
p. 67.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 171.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 193.—
O. & Gr., 1934, p. 125.
Flora Dan. tab. 16.
Icelandic: Fjalladepla. Danish: Fjæld-Ærenpris. English: Alpine Speedwell.
Common in all parts, in the lowland as well as the central highland; in the
hills it is found at least up to 1000 m s. m., e.g. in Kerlingarfjöll (J.Gr., 1934) ;
often in the snow-patches in company with Salix herbacea.
In some of the Icelandic specimens the capsules are pubescent with glandless
hairs, and the sepals are pilose on back as well as on the margins; they may be
placed under the var. lasiocarþa Hartm. (Syn. var. australis Wg.). See fig. 156.
f. albiflora, with white flowers occurs now and then.
Fig. 156. Veronica alþina L. a. the usual form.
b. var. lasiocarþa Hartm. c. 3:1.