368 Fr. J. Mathiesen. 



Veronica fniticans Crantz (V.saxatilis Scop.). 



Alcohol-material from Greenland (Julianehaab, leg. Lut- 

 zen, 3. 7. 1887; Præstefjældet, leg. E. Warming, 2. 8. and 

 6. '8. 1884) and Northern Norway (Kåfjord, leg. E. Warming, 

 15. 7. 1885). — Herbarium-material from Greenland, Iceland, 

 the Færoes and Fennoscandia. 



Lit.: AxELL, 1869, p. 102; Lange, 1880, p. 73; 1887, p. 261; 

 MiJLLER, 1881, p. 267; Warming, 1888, pp. 35, 75 and 87; 1890, 

 p. 203; Rosenvinge, 1892, p. 685; 1896 (II), pp. 128, 144, 161; 

 Wagner, 1892, pp. 8 and 21; Hartz, 1894, pp. 9 and 57; 1895 (I), 

 pp. 273, 289; 1895 (II), p. 335; Hartz and Kruuse, 1911, pp. 352, 

 357, 359 and 409; Koch, 1895, p. 117 et seq. and p. 127; Norman, 

 1895, p. 452; Knuth, 1899, p. 167; Porsild, 1902, p. 230; 1920, 

 p. 141; HucHEDÉ, 1907, p. 72, fig. IV, B^, flg. V, C^, and fig. VI, C^; 

 Sylvén, 1906, p. 80; Kruuse, 1905, p. 175; 1906, p. 248; 1911, in 

 part IV pp. 202, 207, 243, 261 and 262, besides many notes in the 

 preceding parts; Schroter, 1908, pp. 221 and 656. 



An evergreen, nanophyllous ^, sympodial under-shrub- 

 chamæphyte which has a main root that dies away early 

 (according to Sylvén), and develops adventitious roots 

 fairly abundantly; the winter-buds are raised at most a 

 few cm above the siirface of the ground; older, vigorous 

 specimens form small tufts (Kruuse, 1906, p. 248). The 

 shoot-development extends over two years; during the 

 first year a horizontal or obliquely-ascending part is de- 

 veloped, only a few cm long and furnished with a few 

 (3 — 7) pairs of foliage-leaves; the next year the shoot 



^ C. Raunkiær: Om Bladstørrelsens Anvendelse i den biologiske 

 Plantegeografi (Bot. Tidsskrift, Kjbh., Bd. 34, 1916). 



