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Fig. 172. Erigeron uniflorus (L.) emend. Vierhapper.
places in E. In S. found in two places only. In the central highland north of the
Jökulis it occurs in several places. See fig. 172.
Life-form: H.
In fcll-field, herb-slopes, in rocky and gravelly places; usually at a somewhat high
level.
Flor. VII; fr. mat. VIII.
Max. height: 20 cm ; average: 9 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: (?).—Greenl.: W. 60°—67°42'. E. 60°—c. 72°.—Eur.: S.;
northern parts, and mts. of central Eur., Caucasus, Spitsbergen. Novaya Zemlya.—
Asia: Northern regions, and mts. of central Asia, Asia Minor.
Filago germanica Linn.
Rostrup, 1887, p. 180.—Bennet, 1890, p. 80.—Stefánsson, Fl. tsl., ed. 2, 1924,
p. 217,—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 139.
Rostrup, loc. cit., mentions that a specimen from Reynistaðir, N. (coll. Páll
Briem) was kept in Ólafur Davíðsson’s collection, but as Bennet, loc. cit., remarks,
it is doubtless introduced. Cp. also Stefánsson, loc. cit.
390. Gnaphalium norvegicum Gunn., Fl. norv. II (1772) p. 105.
[G. sylvaticum, K. & M., 1770, p. 209].—G. norvegicum Gunn., Babington,
1871, p. 313.—Gronlund, 1881, p. 79,—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901,
p. 195.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 221.—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 140.
Flora Dan. tab. 254.
Icelandic: Fjandafæla. Danish: Norsk Evighedsblomst. English: Alpine Cudweed.
In the older lists this species is named G. sylvaticum, see above. Common in all
parts, usually at a high level, but likewise fairly frequent in the lowland. Thoroddsen