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379. Succisa pratensis (Linn.) Moench, Method. Plant. Hort. bot. Mar-
burg. (1794) p. 489.
Scabiosa succisa, K. & M., 1770, p. 205.—Babington, 1871, p. 311.—Succisa
pratensis Moench, Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 81.—Stefánsson, Fl. Isl., ed. 1,
1901, p. 188.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 213.—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 133.
Flora Dan. tab. 279.
Icelandic: Stúfa. Danish: Djævelsbid. English: Devil’s bit Scabious, Devil’s bit.
Rather common in S., otherwise only recorded from one locality in E.: Skriða
in Breiðdalur, Gronlund, 1885, p. 215. See fig. 165.
Life-form : H.
On damp, peaty soil, herb-slopes, grassy slopes.
Flor. VII—VIII; fr. mat. (VIII).
Max. height: 35 cm ; average : 18 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: (adventive from Eur.) Very rare.—Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I.;
throughout Eur. (from 68°21' N. lat.), except in arctic Russia, and the southern-
most parts ; Caucasus.—Asia : Western Siberia.—N. Africa.
Campanulaceae.
Campanula patula Linn.
Olafsen & Povelsen, 1772, p. 814.—Mohr, 1786, p. 166.—Gliemann, 1824, p. 139.—
Babington, 1871, p. 316.
O. & P., loc. cit., record this plant from Skaftafell and mention it as growing
in many places in E. Icel,—Mohr, loc. cit., writes that Olavius found it between
Vopnafjörður and Fljótsdalur. No doubt large specimens of C. rotundifolia have
been mistaken for this plant; cp. also Babington, loc. cit.
Fig. 166. Campanula rotundijolia L.