The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Page 356

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JOHS. GRONTVED
of Iceland. See fig. 163. At Akureyri it has been found in several places along the
high road, southward, as far as Hvammur.
Life-form: H.
In marshes and ditches, near hot springs, in copses.
Flor. VII; fr. mat. (VIII).
Max. height: 30 cm ; average : 20 cm.
Geogr. area: Greenl.: W. (introduced at Ivigtút).—Eur.: E.S.I.; Scandinavia from
70°28' N. lat., southward throughout Europe, except in the southernmost parts.
Fig. 163. Galium uliginosum L.
376. Gálium verum Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 107.
K. & M., 1770, p. 205,—Babington, 1871, p. 311.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881,
p. 75.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 186.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 210.—
O. & Gr., 1934, p. 131.
Flora Dan. tab. 1146.
Icelandic: Gulmaðra. Danish: Gul Snerre. English: Yellow Bedstraw, Lady’s
Bedstraw.
Common in all parts, in the lowland as well as the central highland. f. asperum
Lge., with stems and upper surface of leaves rough or hairy. Found here and
there.
Life-form: H.
In dry fields, grassy slopes and herb-slopes, in scrub and heaths, on the old
earthen walls of the farmsteads, on rocks, etc.
Flor. VI—VIII; fr. mat. (VIII).
Max. height: 45 cm ; average : 20 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: (naturalized from Eur.) Maine, Virginia, Ontario, Tennessee.—