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Life-form: H.
On damp soil in the hill region, in heaths, copses, grassy slopes, in rock-fissures,
along rivulets, etc.
Flor. VI—VIII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 20 cm; average : 8 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: (V. Wormskioldii R. & Sch. (Syn. V. alpina villosa (Wormskj.)
Lange)1 Labrador to Hudson Bay, and Alaska; mts. of Maine and New Hampshire;
mts. of New Mexico and Arizona; California.—Greenl.: (partly V. Wormskioldii)
W. 60°—71°38'. E. 60°—71°58'.—Eur.: Fær.; S.; arctic Eur., Jan Mayen ; mts.
of central and southern Eur,-—Asia: Arctic regions.
361. Veronica Anagallis-aquatica Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 12.
K. & M., 1770, p. 203.—V. Anagallis L., Babington, 1871, p. 321.-—Bennet,
1884, p. 70.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 172.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924,
p. 194.—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 126.
Flora Dan. tab. 903; Rchb. tab. 1702.
Icelandic : Laugadepla. Danish : Lancetbladet
Very rare: Only found in a few places
in S.W. It was recorded by König & Miiller,
loc. cit., and after them entered in all the
older lists. The first specimen in evidence
was found by Steenstrup (1840—41) at
Reykir in ölfus, S., and it has subsequently
been found there again by various collectors.
Common on the ölfus river near the mouth.
The other localities are: Andakilsá in
Borgarfjörður, S.W. (coll. M.V.), and
Marteinslaug in Haukadalur, S. (M. Helga-
son, 1897) ; see fig. 157.
var. anagalliformis (Boreau) Beck, with
glandular-hairy racemes. Most of the Ice-
landic specimens belong to this form.
Life-form: HH. (Hclophyte).
Near hot springs, and along rivulets issuing from these.
Flor. VII—(VIII) ; fr. mat. VIII.
Max. height: 30 (50) cm; average: 16 cm.
Geogr. area : Am. : Nova Scotia to Brit. Columbia, southward to N. Carolina and New
Mexico.—Eur.: E.S.I.; throughout Eur., except in the arctic parts.—Asia: Western
and northern parts.—N. Africa.
Veronica arvensis Linn.
Ingimar Óskarsson, 1933, p. 43.—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 125.
This species is found in one place only: at the hot spring Reykjarlaug in Fnjóska-
dalur, N. (I.Ó., July 1932). It has most likely been accidentally introduced with
grass-seeds sown in the neighbourhood of the spring, and can scarcely be regarded
as naturalized in Iceland (cp. I.Ó., loc. cit.).
1 F. W. Pennell, “Veronica” in North and South America, in Rhodora 23, 1921,
p. 14—15.
Ærenpris. English: Water Speedwell.
Fig. 157. Veronica Anagallis-
aquatica L.