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Icelandic: Þrenningarmaðra. English : Small Bedstraw.
This species was first recorded by Gliemann, loc. cit., but without locality; later
on it was found on Hrappsey in Breiðifjörður, W. (coll. G.M.), cp. Rostrup, loc.
cit. ; in the course of the last twenty-five years it has been found in several places
in N.; also recorded from N.W. and S. See fig. 162.
The material of this species from Iceland is, according to Fernald (see M. P.
Porsild, 1930, p. 26), not typical G. trifidum, but it is too scanty for a definite
Fig. 162. Galium trifidum L.
identification; it has been suggested that it should be referred to the American
G. Brandegeei Gray, see above.
Life-form : H.
Flor. VII; fr. mat. (VIII).
Max. height: 20 cm; average: 5 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: Newfoundland to Alaska, southward to New York, Colorado and
California.—Eur.: Northern Finland and Scandinavia, northern and central Russia,
Estonia, Curonia. Alps (Steiermark).—Asia: Siberia, from the Obi and the Yenisei
(about 68° lat. N.), Kamchatka, N. Mongolia, Korea, Japan.
375. Galium uliginosum Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 106.
Vahl, 1840, p. 372.—Babington, 1871, p. 311.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881,
p. 75.—E. Rostrup, 1887, p. 179.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 187.—
Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 211.—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 132.
Flora Dan. tab. 1509.
Icelandic : Laugamaðra. Danish : Sump-Snerre. English : Swamp Bedstraw.
A somewhat rare species: Found in some places in N. and in the western parts
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