Scrophulariaceae. 



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Scandinavia to Lapland and Finmark, Iceland, Great Britain 

 and the Alpine regions of Southern Europe. To these should 

 be added the Færoes (Ostenfeld, 1901, p. 56). In West 

 Greenland the northernmost limit is found on the Nugsuak- 

 peninsula (70°42'); in 



East Greenland it 

 passes over the Scores- 

 by Sound. 



Habitat. InWest 

 Greenland V. alpina 

 grows in copses, on 

 "herb-slopes", in snow- 



troughs (Snelejer) 

 where the snow does 

 not lie till very late 

 in the summer, and 

 on sandy flåts near 

 the shore (Warming, 



1888; Rosenvinge, 

 1896 (II)). In East 

 Greenland it is noted 

 too from "herb- 

 slopes", grassy-slopes 

 and copses; besides, 

 Kruuse, in the AngmagsaHk district, has found it growing 

 on the steps of steep rocks above the slopes. It is always 

 well covered with snow during its winter-rest (cf. also 

 Kruuse, 1905, p. 175 and Porsild, 1920, p. 140). Th. Res- 

 VOLL mentions the species as a common plant of the snow- 

 troughs in the whole of Norway; according to Norman it is 

 also found by mountain-streams, in birch-wood glades, )n 

 inundated river-banks, on the coast and on mountain-sum- 

 mits. A. Cleve records: "Håufig und tippig ausgebildet in 

 XXXVII. 25 



Fig. 6. Veronica alpina. 



Transverse section of an adventitious root 



(about "o/j_ (Norway.) 



