. Botany of the Faeröes, based upon Danish investigations. Botany -- Faroe islands. 957 and Sondfjord. Thus in one paper (1895, p. 40) he gives briefly llie characlerislics of »the heath-carpet (Lyngtæppet) on bare rocks« on the coast, and these fit in ratlier well with the Fæ He gives Calluna as dominant species, refers next to Erica cinerea, and regards as secondary species Jiiniperiis, Polygala serpijllacea, Hypericiim piilchriim, Galiiim saxatile, Enphrasia fgracilis), Biiniiim flexiwsiim and the tall, grass-Hke Carex hinervis and Luziila silva- tica. All these, with the e
. Botany of the Faeröes, based upon Danish investigations. Botany -- Faroe islands. 957 and Sondfjord. Thus in one paper (1895, p. 40) he gives briefly llie characlerislics of »the heath-carpet (Lyngtæppet) on bare rocks« on the coast, and these fit in ratlier well with the Fæ He gives Calluna as dominant species, refers next to Erica cinerea, and regards as secondary species Jiiniperiis, Polygala serpijllacea, Hypericiim piilchriim, Galiiim saxatile, Enphrasia fgracilis), Biiniiim flexiwsiim and the tall, grass-Hke Carex hinervis and Luziila silva- tica. All these, with the exceplion of Biininm flexnosnm, lind a place. ig. ii Undulating heather-moor at Sand on Sando. Sandsvatn in the distance. Nunierous lichen- ovcred roclis and stones emerge above the plant-carpet. (From photo. by author). in the Færoese heath-formation. There is also a list of dominant species given by A. Bly tt (1869, p. 49) from »Torvemyrene og Lyngen i de vestligste Egne« (turf-moors and heath in the most western tracts). Of the 19 species mentioned there, no less than 14 are common in the Færoese plant-association of a similar type; but the heath of the West-Norwegian coast, so far as I can make out, is a much purer type of Calluna heath than the Færoese. This is the case at all events with the heath-formation around Lerwick on Shetland, which I saw^ for a few hours during a passing visit in 1903. The following notes from my diary refer to this: »Undulat- ing ridge on primitive (archaic) rock, north of the town. The vege- tation is typical heath, with Calluna strongly dominant. Aira flex- iiosa, Nardus, Juncus squarrosus, Festuca ouina vivipara, Scirpus caespitosus and Potentilla erecta are rather common, but generally in hollows. The Calluna heath is remarkably uniform. On a somewhat moister soil Eriophorum polystachyum occurs, Calluna. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colo
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