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J. A. NANNFELDT 



It must first be pointed out that all North Atlantic mountain poppies are widely 

 different from those of the Alps, the latter all being diploids (2/7 = 14), 

 whereas those in the north are octoploids, decaploids and dodecaploids. 



Fig. 3. The total distribution of the mountain poppies in Scandinavia (After 



Knaben, 1959a). 



• Fapaver radical iii>i sensu Nordhagen and Knaben. 

 ■ P. clahtianuiu. o P. lapponiciim ssp. laestac/iaiiiiiii. 

 A P. lapponictini ssp. scandinaviciini. 



The populations growing in Scandinavia (Fig. 3) can be grouped into three 

 polymorphous species, one is octoploid, viz. P. lapponicum (incl. P. laestadia- 

 num). Love (1952) claims that the name P. radicatum should be transferred 

 to this species. The two other Scandinavian species are decaploids. One is 



