The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Blaðsíða 368

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JOHS. GRONTVED
(1914, p. 304) calls it a plateau plant which also occurs in the lowland. It is a
species characteristic of the vegetation of snow-patches at a high level.
Life-form : H.
On grassy slopes and herb-slopes, in snow-patches, heaths.
Flor. VII—VIII; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 35 cm ; average: 17 cm.
Geogr. area: Am. : Newfoundland, Gaspé, Quebec, Baffin Land.—Greenl.: W.
60°—69°46'.—E. 60°—66°20\—Eur. : E.S.I.; arctic Eur. and central Eur. mts.,
Balkan, Ural, Caucasus.—Asia: Temperate Siberia, Altai.
391. Gnaphalium supinum Linn., System. nat. Ed. 2 (1767) p. 234.
Gliemann, 1824, p. 146.—Babington, 1871, p. 313.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881,
p. 79.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 194.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 220.—
O. & Gr., 1934, p. 140.
Flora Dan. tab. 332.
Icelandic: Grámulla. Danish: Bjerg-Evighedsblomst. English: Dwarf Cudweed,
Mountain Cudweed.
Common in all parts, especially at a somewhat high level; common in the central
highland, and there observed up to 1000 m s. m. in Kerlingarfjöll (J.Gr., 1934).
Characteristic species in the vegetation of snow-patches.
The G. alpinum (G. fuscum Willd.) in Gliemann’s list is probably identical with
G. supinum, although Gliemann also records this species (cp. Babington, loc. cit.).
Life-form: Ch.
In snow-patches, on heaths, grassy slopes and herb-slopes, herb-mats.
Flor. VI—VII ; fr. mat. VII—VIII.
Max. height: 15 cm; average: 6 cm.
Geogr. area: Am. : Arctic regions and alpine summits of the mts. of New Hampshire
and Maine. Labrador.—Greenl. : W. 60°—70°20'. E. 60°—70°25'.—Eur. : Fær.;
S., Fennoscandia, Ural, Pyrenees, Alps, Jura, Karpathians, northern Balkans, Cau-
casus, Ural.—Asia : Asia Minor.
392. Gnaphalium sylvaticum Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 856.
Hooker in Mackenzie, 1811, p. 426.—G. rectum, Hjaltalín, 1830, p. 260.—
G. sylvaticum L., Lindsay, 1861, p. 30.—Babington, 1871, p. 313.—Strömfelt,
1884, p. 105.—Rostrup, 1887, p. 180.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901,
p. 195.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 220,—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 140.
Flora Dan. tab. 1229.
Icelandic: Grájurt. Danish: Rank Evighedsblomst. English: Wood Cudweed.
Was first found with certainty by Strömfelt at Laugar in Aðalreykjadalur, N.,
in 1883; older records (Hooker, 1811, p. 426, etc.) are considered very uncertain,
so that even Babington, loc. cit., had doubts about its being really found in Iceland.
Some of the records may possibly be due to erroneous determinations of poor
individuals of G. norvegicum.
Found in a good many places in the tracts around Eyjafjörður, N., and in W.,
cspecially in Dalasýsla, also occurring in N.W. and in E., but hitherto not found
with certainty in S. and in the central parts. Sce fig. 173.