THE CONTINENTAL FLORA OF SOUTH SWEDEN 



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number of localities produced by cultiva- 

 tion (roadsides, fieldsides, and baulks etc.). 

 Like many other species falling under 

 this head, Agrimonia has a northern limit 

 of distribution that coincides closely with 

 the transition from the Central Swedish 

 plain into the Norrland forest region. 

 Attention should also be directed to the 

 wide distribution of the species in the 

 coastal skerries of South-East Sweden and 

 in the broken mainland that lie behind 

 those skerries. 



In passing we must j)oint out its 

 distribution in Norway. With its isolated 

 occurrences in the inner parts of the 

 fjords of western Norway Agrimonia ap- 

 pears as a representative of Blytt's y> Boreal 

 element^-) (Blytt, e. g. 1876 and 1893) and 

 of Hansen's »Origanum formation» (Han- 

 sen, 1904 a and b; see above p- 



317)- 



Geraniiini sajigiiineum (Fig. 23) is an- 

 other species which is pretty general in and on the southern and western coast to Sond- 

 Middle Europe. In the south of Swe- 'J^''^^ ^ '" Denmark it is not rare in northern Jutland, 



^ ■ nil -.in on northern Zealand and on Bornholm ; besides it 



den It especially belongs to the flora 



is found on Falsler, Lolland, Fyen, and in Slesvig. 



of rockv escarpments, but it may also i 17 1 . ^ 1 1 c • .u 



•^ 1 ' -'In 1" inland it has also a few occurrences in the 



form a part of the same dry forest hill- south-western mainland. 



side as Agrimonia (see table 4, Appen- 

 dix II). Geranium sanguineum is found almost throughout the south of Sweden- 

 In the west, especially in the west of Smaland, it resembles Agrimonia in oc. 

 curring less abundantly than in the east. But it is not rare on the rocky coast 

 of the north of Halland and Bohusliin. It is less favoured by civilization in its 

 distribution than is Agrimonia. Thus it is not so common as the latter plant 

 on the plains of Central Sweden. Its distribution in the south of Sweden may 

 serve as an example of the maximum distribution of species belonging to this 

 group which have shown comparatively little power of making use of the help 

 of civilization. — Vox this species too attention must be drawn to its wide distri- 

 bution in the coastal skerries and on the broken mainland behind. Inland 

 occurrences are especially to be found in cliffs and on the sloping edges of lakes 

 and watercourses. 



Fig. 23. The Swedish distribution area of Gera- 

 nium sanguineum. 

 In Norway the species is pretty abundantly spread 

 over the south-eastern district (in the north loToten) 



